Han Myeong-sook

Han Myung- sook ( born March 24, 1944 in Heijo, sub-province Heian Nando Chosen province, former Japanese Empire, present-day North Korea) was the first Prime Minister of South Korea in history. Your predecessor Lee Hae -chan had resigned on 15 March 2006 because of the so-called golf game scandal, he had played during a major strike golf. Until its inauguration in the meantime took Han Duck -soo, the duties of the Prime Minister.

She graduated in 1967 from Ewha Women's University with a bachelor's degree in French language and literature. In 1986, she earned a master's degree in Women's Studies.

She came by her husband, a professor and dissidents to politics and was an activist in the Christian Academy. In 1979, she was sentenced under dictator Park Chung -hee to a two- year sentence, which she was serving under Chun Doo -hwan. She was later rehabilitated.

In 2000 she was elected to Parliament. She belonged as the then President Roh at the liberal Uri Party and is regarded as moderate politician. It was in 2001 the first female Minister of South Korea for Gender Equality and Family, 2003, she was Minister of the Environment. Kim Dae -jung had 2002 already proposed by Chang Sang a woman; but it was rejected by Parliament.

The Uri Party merged in 2008 with the MDP to the Democratic Party, which in turn in December 2011 with the Citizen Integration Party to the United Democratic Party. At the first congress of the party on January 15, 2012 Han Myung- sook was elected party chairman after the election defeat of her party in the parliamentary elections in South Korea in 2012 she announced her departure from her position as party chairman.