South Korea’s Budding Femocracy
If Park Geun-hye wins South Korea's presidential election in December, she will be the first woman to hold the job. That would be a crucial victory in the effort to establish a political environment hospitable to women – and a powerful example to other Asian countries in which women have struggled to gain an electoral foothold.
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TOKYO – This is a year of presidential elections worldwide, and the last to take place – on December 19 – will be in South Korea. That ballot, however, is already having an international impact, in part because South Korea’s failure to ratify an important new intelligence-sharing treaty with Japan is widely seen as a result of campaign politics. But the election may well have a more positive impact on the region as a whole.