Park Extols Korea Bonanza With a North-South Unification

President Park Geun Hye, who became South Korea’s first woman leader by promising a more “creative economy,” begins her second year vowing to pursue the unprecedented prosperity she said will result from unification with North Korea amid flagging interest from many citizens more than six decades after the peninsula’s war.

To persuade voters captivated by Samsung Electronics Co.’s electronic gadgets and the latest “K-pop” music stars as the aging workforce threatens the nation’s productivity, Park plans a public campaign extolling the business opportunities from the combination of capital and technology in Asia’s fourth-largest economy with the North’s human and natural resources.