Park says S Korea needs ‘motherly’ leader

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'While women hold relatively few senior positions in South Korean business and politics, Ms Park has sought to use her gender – as well as her political experience – as a key selling point.

Her campaign banners and television advertisements feature the slogan: “A prepared female president”, and she has referred to her sex increasingly frequently as the election has drawn closer.

Ms Park, daughter of the military dictator Park Chung-hee, would follow previous Asian female heads of government such as Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan and Indira Gandhi of India, who were also children of former leaders.'

“Faced with the possibility of another global economic crisis next year, we should now establish a feminine, motherly leader who may sacrifice all for the sake of the people,” Ms Park, 60, said last month.'