Cho Won-jin

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Cho Won-jin in September 2019
Korean spelling
Hangeul 조원진
Hanja 趙 源 震
Revised
Romanization 		Jo Wonjin
McCune-
Reischauer 		Cho Wonjin

Cho Won-jin (born January 7, 1959 in Daegu , South Korea ) is a conservative South Korean politician and member of the Gukhoe for Dalseo-gu , a western district of Daegu city. He is the party leader of the Uri Gonghwa Party , a split from the Saenuri Party founded in 2017 .

Political career

Cho Won-jin was born in Daegu and studied political science and diplomacy at Hankuk University of Foreign Languages . He also studied public administration at Yeungnam University .

Cho was elected to the South Korean parliament for the first time in the 2008 parliamentary elections in South Korea. He was elected for the Jayu-hanguk party , which at that time still bore the name Hannara-dang in Dalseo-gu, in the west of the city of Daegu, in the conservative southeast of the country.

In the wake of the political scandal surrounding the President of South Korea, Park Geun-hye , Cho vehemently sided with Parks and, two years later, described the investigation against the President as illegal, fraudulent and a lie. On May 10, 2019, Cho and his party supporters organized a protest in Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul to demonstrate for Park Geun-hye's release from prison. This protest was to be followed by weeks of conflict with local authorities as Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon ordered the protest camps to be removed. Cho and his party resisted this plan.

2017 presidential election

When the political scandal surrounding Park shook the country, Cho resigned from Jayuhanguk-dang in April 2017 and joined the newly founded Saenuri-dang, which was named after the earlier name of Jayuhanguk-dang. As a candidate for this party, he ran in the presidential elections in South Korea in 2017 . He had been considering the step of a presidential candidacy for a long time. Cho wanted to be seen as a beacon of hope for the victory of the conservative right in the country and for the future of Korea, thus preventing the formation of a so-called dark left government. He accused the Jayuhanguk-dang presidential candidate, Hong Jun-pyo of wanting to purge the party of park loyalists, and called his former party the Hong Jun-pyo Party . Cho also spoke negatively to the liberal-conservative Bareun party and its candidate Yoo Seong-min and predicted that more conservative MPs would leave Jayuhanguk-dang for Saenuri-dang if a conservative alliance were to emerge. However, Cho only got 0.13% of the vote and thus had no influence on the outcome of the elections. He called the elected President Moon Jae-in the ruler of a dictatorship after the Supreme Court of South Korea ordered a new trial for Park in late August 2019.

After the election, Cho resigned from the Seanuri-dang and founded the Patriotic Korea Party, which is now called Uri Gonghwa Party ( Our Republican Party ).

Cho is considered a supporter of the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping and his personal anti-corruption campaign . He also advocates closer trade relations with the People's Republic of China . As a MP, Cho met Xi in December 2009.

Web links

Commons : Cho Won-jin  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 조원진 국회의원 소개 - 대한민국 국회. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The Korea Herald: [From the Scene] Radical conservatives call for Park's release, condemn Moon. March 10, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The Korea Herald: Far-right party ignores Seoul mayor's ultimatum, may stall feud during Trump's visit. June 27, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ rallies Both welcoming and opposing Trump to take place in Seoul. June 28, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  5. ^ The Korea Herald: Far-right party removes tents from Seoul square. July 16, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 김은정: Far-right party puts up protest tents in Gwanghwamun Square. July 6, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  7. ^ The Korea Herald: Far-right party again puts up protest tents in central Seoul. July 5, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  8. ^ The Korea Herald: [ELECTION 2016] Conservatives battle in Saenuri stronghold. April 1, 2016, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The Korea Herald: Park loyalist hints at presidential run with revived Saenuri Party. April 10, 2017, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  10. ^ The Korea Herald: Pro-Park Geun-hye activists disappointed with Supreme Court ruling. August 29, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The Korea Herald: [Newsmaker] Far-right campsite cleared from Gwanghwamun Square. June 25, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  12. ↑ 조원진, 오늘 '시진핑 반부패 정책…' 세미나. June 18, 2015, accessed November 2, 2019 (Korean).
  13. ↑ 친일 보다 친중 이 매국노 다 조원진 은 친중 북폭 반대 자다> 자유 게시판 | 지만원 의 시스템 클럽. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  14. ↑ 조원진 의원, 시진핑 중국 국가 부주석 면담. Retrieved November 2, 2019 (Korean).
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, Won-jin is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Cho, won-jin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 조원진 (Korean, Hangeul); 趙 源 震 (Korean, Hanja); Jo, Wonjin (Revised Romanization); Cho, Wŏnjin (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Daegu , South Korea