Sim Sang-jung: A Superwoman Without Superpower

She calls herself the maid to Park Geun-hye’s princess. She’s the fringe to Park Geun-hye’s mainstream status. Park grew up in a castle: the president’s official residence that her father occupied for 18 years until his assassination in 1979, to which she returned many years later as president, and from which she was thrown out just three weeks ago. Sim Sang-jung, on the other hand, was born in a rural town near the border with North Korea, as the youngest out of four siblings, in a family th