On Dec. 19, South Korea elected conservative candidate Park Geun-Hye to be its first female president. In this Dec. 20 photo, the president-elect celebrates with members of her election camp during a ceremony in Seoul. Park, profiled here, is the daughter of South Korea's former military ruler. As Foreign Policy's Isaac Stone Fish points out, family dynasties are remarkably common in Asia.

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