I am SHOCKED!!! In a country where most women are still expected to cook, clean, take care of the children, stay home and basically be a servant for their husbands, a WOMAN has been elected president!  Social progress is in full view today! 
Congratulations Park Geun-hye.


Although, she's not just ANY woman, she is incidentally the daughter of Korea's assassinated dictator, Park Chung-Hee, who served as dictator from 1961 to 1979, and she actually grew up in the Blue House (Korea's equivalent to America's White House) 

"Many hope the elevation of the first woman to the presidency will help shatter the old patriarchal Confucian habits which permeate South Korean society, analysts say." - BBC
FOR THE SAKE OF ALL MY KOREAN FEMALE FRIENDS, I SURE HOPE SO!

 Here's the rest of the BBC article about Korea's newest President!