Chang Myon

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Chang Myon
Hangeul 장면
Hanja 張 勉
Revised
Romanization 		Jang Myeon
McCune-
Reischauer 		Chang Myon

Chang Myon , also: John Chang Myon or John M. Chang, (born August 28, 1899 in Incheon , then Korea , now South Korea , † June 4, 1966 in Seoul , South Korea) was a South Korean politician and two-time Prime Minister of South Korea.

Life

Chang Myon was raised a Roman Catholic and was baptized with the name Johan . At the time when Korea was a colony of Japan , he took the name Tamaoka Tsutomu ( Japanese 玉 岡 勉 ). Chang Myon had seven children. His son, John Chang-yik, was Bishop of Chuncheon .

He graduated from Manhattan College in New York in the United States .

From 1949 to 1951 he was ambassador to the USA. On November 23, 1950 he was appointed 2nd Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea under President Rhee Syng-man and held this office until April 24, 1952. From 1956 to 1960 he was Vice President. In the 1960 presidential elections, in which Rhee ran for the fourth time and is said to have received almost 90% of the vote, Rhee's candidate for the post of Vice President Lee Ki-poong also won with such a suspiciously large lead that there were demonstrators on the streets against the presumed election fraud. Previously, the then interior minister and vice-presidential candidate Lee Ki-poong used the police he controlled to take action against political opponents. Police claimed Chang Myon was working with North Korea- paid bombers to try to forcibly overthrow Rhee. As a result of the unrest and student protests, Rhee fled into exile in Hawaii and Chang was again Prime Minister of the Second Republic from August 18, 1960 to May 18, 1961 under President Yun Bo-seon , who was elected on August 13, 1960 . The Second Republic was also known as the Chang Myon government because it had a parliamentary system of government and Chang Myon, as prime minister, was now also the head of government . After just a few months, on May 16, 1961, a military coup led by Park Chung-hee and overthrew the Second Republic.

He died on June 4, 1966 in Seoul at the age of 66.

Web links

Commons : Chang Myon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Late Seoul archbishop was Japanese collaborator , UCAnews.com of November 11, 2009 (English).
  2. ↑ A Legacy from a Grateful Family on blogs.anselm.edu of May 20, 2013, accessed on August 5, 2020.
  3. ^ Fall of Korea's First President Syngman Rhee in 1960 . The Korea Times, April 18, 2010 (English).
  4. ^ Syngman Rhee: president who could have done more . The Korea Times, November 2, 2011.
  5. ↑ Khaled, Mortuza: Park Chung-hee's Industrialization Policy and its Lessons for Developing Countries (PDF; 156 kB). A Paper for the World Congress for Korean Studies-2007. University of Rajshahi . Retrieved May 25, 2013.
predecessor Office successor
Lee Beom-seok 2. Prime Minister of South Korea
November 23, 1950–24. April 1952 		Jang Taek-sang
Huh boy 7. Prime Minister of South Korea
August 18, 1960-18. May 1961 		Choi Doo-sun
personal data
SURNAME Chang, Myon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chang, John Myun; Tsutomu Tamaoka; 玉 岡 勉 (Japanese); 장면 (Hangeul); 張 勉 (Hanja); Jang, Myeon (Revised Romanization); Chang, Myŏn (McCune-Reischauer); 장지태 (Hangeul maiden name); 張志 兌 (Hanja maiden name); Jang, Ji-tae (Revised Romanization maiden name); Chang, Chit'ae (McCune-Reischauer maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean politician, Prime Minister of South Korea
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Incheon , then Korea
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1966
Place of death Seoul