Cho Kyu-kwang

Korean spelling
Hangeul	조규광
Hanja	曺 圭 光
Revised Romanization	Jo Gyugwang
McCune- Reischauer	Cho Kyukwang
See also : Korean name

Cho Kyu-kwang ( April 4, 1926 - December 24, 2018 ) was a South Korean lawyer . From September 1988 to September 1994 he was judge and chairman of the constitutional court .

Life

Cho Kyu-kwang attended secondary schools in both Korea and Japan . In 1948 he graduated from the College of Fine Arts and Science at Seoul National University with a major in Political Science and was admitted to the bar exams a year later. He then served as a judge at the Seoul District Court (1951), the Seoul Appeals Court (1960) and the Seoul Civil Court (1964) before practicing as a lawyer from 1966 to 1988 .

On September 12, 1988, President Roh Tae-woo Cho nominated along with Kim Yang-kyun and Choe Kwang-ryool as judges for the Constitutional Court and Cho as its first chairman. On September 15, the National Assembly ratified Cho as chairman and on September 19, Roh Tae-woo appointed Cho Kyu-kwang as judge and chairman of the Constitutional Court. The first motion for a constitutional review was filed by the Supreme Court on November 8, 1988 ; the application itself was from Cho, who had represented the applicant as a lawyer before the Supreme Court. When the case reached the Constitutional Court, Cho himself withdrew from the case. Cho's tenure ended on September 14, 1994, and Kim Yong-joon was succeeded as chairman . After his tenure, Cho returned to work as a lawyer.

In 2008, Cho Kyu-kwang received the Mokchon Law Award, founded in 2005 in honor of Kim Do-chang , for his efforts as first chairman of the Constitutional Court.

literature

• Korea Annual . Yonhap News Agency, Seoul 1997, p. 495 (English).
• Chan Jin Kim: Korean Attitudes toward Law . In: Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal . tape 10 , no. 1 , 2010, p. 40 (English, handle.net [PDF; 2.4 MB ; accessed on February 12, 2017]).
• The first ten years of the Korean Constitutional Court (1988 ~ 1998) . Constitutional Court of Korea, Seoul 2001, p. 31, 33, 43 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary accessed on March 28, 2019
2. ^ Park Si-soo: Ex-Constitutional Court Chief Wins Prize. In: The Korea Times . November 6, 2008, accessed February 12, 2017 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Cho is the family name here, Kyu-kwang is the first name.