South Korean President Park Geun-hye walks out a voting booth after marking her ballots for the local elections at a polling station in Seoul June 4, 2014. REUTERS/Do Kwang-hwan/Yonhap
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye was handed a sharp rebuke at regional and mayoral polls for her government's handling of April's ferry disaster but an official said on Thursday her party can now work to rebuild trust in the grieving nation.
Park's conservative Saenuri Party still managed a strong enough showing in Thursday's nationwide polls to push ahead with plans to reform bureaucracy and boost the economy. The elections were the first vote since more than 300 people, most of them school children, were killed when the ferry Sewol sank.
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