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Today Online: Grace Park is Superwoman

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Yes, Superwoman does exist. Her name is Grace Park and she’s graduated with honors from West Point, lead a platoon of soldiers in Korea, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for charity, launched a start-up and had a baby all in one lifetime.

Today Online recently published a piece about Park’s life and accomplishments.

At 15, Park decided to attend West Point Academy despite the fact that the pictures featured in the brochure showed no other Korean Americans like herself.

“I told my parents (I remember very clearly), ‘I won’t fit in. Look, I’m Asian, I’m female, I’m only 5 ft 4 (1.62m). These are 6 ft 2 guys’,” Park told Today Online.

Park attended West Point and graduated in the top 3 percent of her class. She also came in second in the physical fitness test, losing out to a male classmate by 0.001 point. She went on to become a captain in the Pentagon and, later, moved to the private sector, climbing her way to Managing Director of Medtronic, the world’s largest medical-technology company.

Today, Park is Chief Executive and co-founder of DocDoc, the leading online medical-appointment-booking and health-information portal in Asia. She lives in Singapore with her husband and newborn child.

To read more about Grace Park’s accomplishments, read the piece on Today Online.

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