Park Geun-hye, who was elected as the South Korea’s first female president in December 2012 and proudly became the first female head of state in Northeast Asia, where Confucian legacies are still strong, is now engulfed in a political scandal over influence-peddling. At the center of this scandal is Choi Soon-sil, who has a decades-long […]
Author Archives: Eunjung Lim
Dr. Eunjung Lim is a lecturer of Korea Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS. She has been a researcher and visiting fellow at several institutes including the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, the Institute of Japanese Studies at Seoul National University, the Institute of Japan Studies at Kookmin University, and Institute of Energy Economics, Japan. Before joining the SAIS, Lim taught at several universities in Korea, including Yonsei University and Korea University. She is fluent in Korean, Japanese and English.