Chung Mong-joon

Chung Mong-joon (2008)

Korean spelling
Hangeul	정몽준
Hanja	鄭夢準
Revised Romanization	Jeong Mong-jun
McCune- Reischauer	Chŏng Mongjun
See also : Korean name

Chung Mong-joon (born October 17, 1951 in Busan ) is a South Korean politician and football official. He is the richest person in South Korea .

Life

Chung Mong-joon was born the sixth son of Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung . Until 1988 he worked in senior management at Hyundai and then went into South Korean politics. He has been a member of the National Assembly for the Saenuri Party since 1998 . In 2002 he was a presidential candidate, but renounced his candidacy in favor of the future president, Roh Moo-hyun . During the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, he was President of the South Korean Football Association.

He was first elected a member of the FIFA Executive Committee by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in 1994. He was a member of the FIFA Executive Committee as a FIFA Vice-President until 2011. At the 2011 AFC Congress, he lost his seat in a battle election against the Jordanian Prince Ali bin al-Hussein .

In August 2015 he announced his candidacy for the office of FIFA President to succeed Sepp Blatter . He is said to have but been under the observation of the ethics committee of FIFA since November 2014 has been known as a letter from 2010 from him in which he a payment of 777 million US dollars to a Global Football Fund announces when South Korea Football World Cup 2022. This could be seen as influencing the members of the FIFA Executive Committee, was judged by the chairman of the ethics committee, Hans-Joachim Eckert . The proceedings against Chung were officially opened in January 2015. Chung himself sees it as this, however, that the ethics committee only became aware of him when he announced his candidacy and sees this as an attempt to prevent his candidacy. On October 8, 2015, the FIFA Ethics Committee banned Chung from all football-related activities for six years for violating Article four of the FIFA Code of Ethics and fined him 100,000 Swiss francs .

Individual evidence

1. ^ South Korea's 40 Richest. # 4 Chung Mong-Joon. Forbes.com, accessed December 20, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Football boss wants to power . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 2002 ( online ).
3. ↑ CHUNG Mong-Joon. (No longer available online.) FIFA, formerly the original ; Retrieved December 20, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ^ SID: Election: Prince of Jordan in the FIFA Executive Committee. Zeit Online , accessed January 10, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Candidate Chung scourged the ethics committee in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 6, 2015, accessed on October 8, 2015
6. ↑ Ethics Committee confirms Blatter's suspension in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 8, 2015, accessed on October 8, 2015

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Chung is the family name here, Mong-joon is the first name.