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Park Geun-hye (박근혜, Korean pronunciation: [pak.k͈ɯnh(j)e]; born 2 February 1952) is the 11th and current President of South Korea. Park is the first woman to be elected as President in South Korea, and is serving the 18th presidential term. Park is the first female president of a Northeast Asian nation and the third female head of state in East Asia after Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa and Soong Ching-ling. Prior to her presidency, Park was the Chairwoman of the Conservative Grand National Party (GNP) from 2004 to 2006 and from 2011 to 2012 (the GNP changed its name to the "Saenuri Party" in February 2012). Park was also a member of the Korean National Assembly, and served four complete consecutive parliamentary terms as a constituency representative between 1998 and 2012. Park started her fifth term as a proportional representative in June 2012. Her father, Park Chung-hee, was the President of South Korea from 1963 to 1979. In 2013 and 2014, Park was named the World's 11th Most Powerful Woman and the Most Powerful Woman in East Asia by Forbes Magazine's list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. In 2014, Park was named the World's 46th Most Powerful Person by Forbes magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People, the third highest South Korean on the list, after Lee Kun-hee and Lee Jae-yong.