Choung Byoung-gug

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Choung Byoung-gug
Korean spelling
Hangeul 정병국
Hanja 鄭 柄 國
Revised
Romanization 		Jeong Byeongguk
McCune-
Reischauer 		Chŏng Pyŏngkuk

Choung Byoung-gug (born February 10, 1958 in Gaegun-myeon , Yangpyeong-gun , Gyeonggi-do ) is a South Korean politician ( Bareun Party ), a member of the National Assembly since 2000 and was from January 27 to 16. September 2011 Minister for Culture, Sports and Tourism in the Lee Myung-bak government .

Life

Early years

Choung Byoung-gug attended Gaegun Elementary School in Yangpyeong before he moved to Jeongdeok Elementary School in Seoul against his father's wishes , then attended Yongmoon Middle School and graduated from Sorabol High School in 1977. In 1978 he began his studies at the Sociological Institute of Sungkyunkwan University .

Since his enrollment, Choung has participated in the student protest movement. After the events of May 18, 1980 , Choung was arrested and given the choice of either imprisonment or serving in the South Korean military. He chose the latter option and became a soldier in the South Korean marine infantry . After retiring from military service, Choung continued his studies at Sungkyunkwan University and graduated in 1984.

Furthermore, Choung participated in the democracy movement of the 1980s and founded a publishing house for this purpose in 1985, which supplied student organizations in the Seoul area with anti-government publications. In June 1987, he was arrested again and sentenced to 18 months in prison. The sentence was suspended after the democratization declaration of June 29, 1987 by the presidential candidate and later President Roh Tae-woo .

Political career

During the first Democratic presidential election , Choung served as Director of Public Affairs on Kim Young-sam's campaign team, which Kim lost to Roh Tae-woo. Subsequently, Choung was active as secretary in Kim Young-sam's Democratic Reunification Party and took the same position after the party was merged in 1990 with Kim Jong-pil's New Democratic Republican Party to form the Democratic Liberal Party . After Kim Young-sam's victory in the South Korean presidential election in 1992 , Choung was employed in the President's office in the Blue House , where he served as chief of staff to First Lady Son Myung-soon from 1993 to 1998 .

During his time as an employee in the office of the President Choung participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program of the State Department of the United States in part, and studied at the Graduate School of Public Administration of Yonsei University .

In 2000, Choung stood in the election for the 16th National Assembly in the constituency of Gapyeong-gun, Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do Province for the Great National Party and won the direct mandate with 46.32% of the vote. In the 2004 election, he was re-elected and received in the same year his doctorate in political science from the Sungkyunkwan University.

In 2008 he was elected to the National Assembly for a third term and acted there in the second half of the 18th legislative period as chairman of the committee for culture, sport, tourism and the media; before that he had been a member of this committee for eleven years. At the end of December 2010, President Lee Myung-bak proposed Choung Choung as the 45th Minister for Culture, Sports and Tourism and was appointed on January 27, 2011. In September 2011, as part of a government reshuffle, Choung was reassigned to normal political service for Lee Myung-bak's 2012 parliamentary and presidential elections, since a member of the National Assembly may be appointed minister, but an incumbent minister cannot be a member may run for election to the National Assembly.

In the election to the 19th National Assembly (2012) he was re-elected for a fourth term and in the election to the 20th National Assembly (2016) for a fifth term. In July 2016, Choung announced that he wanted to run as chairman of the Saenuri party , but in August gave up his candidacy in favor of Joo Ho-young , who like him belonged to the non-park faction. In the wake of the corruption scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye , Choung and 28 other members of the National Assembly resigned from the Saenuri party on December 27, 2016.

Subsequently, Choung joined the newly formed Bareun party and was unanimously elected party chairman on January 23. Choung saw it as his job to lead the party through Parks' impeachment and resigned as party leader on March 10, 2017 after Park was removed from office as President of South Korea by the Constitutional Court .

Election results

The following table gives an overview of the election results of Choung Byoung-gug.

year choice Constituency Political party Be right (%) Result
2000 Election to the 16th National Assembly Gyeonggi-do Gapyeong-gun, Yangpyeong-gun Great national party 31,013 (46.32%) elected
2004 Election to the 17th National Assembly Gyeonggi-do Yangpyeong-gun, Gapyeong-gun Great national party 39,280 (59.00%) elected
2008 Election to the 18th National Assembly Gyeonggi-do Yangpyeong-gun, Gapyeong-gun Great national party 38,393 (65.03%) elected
2012 Election to the 19th National Assembly Gyeonggi-do Yeoju-gun, Yangpyeong-gun, Gapyeong-gun Saenuri party 71,544 (67.46%) elected
2016 Election to the 20th National Assembly Gyeonggi-do Yeoju-si, Yangpyeong-gun Saenuri party 59,625 (63.51%) elected

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rep. Choung Byoung-gug tapped as culture minister in Cabinet shake-up. In: The Korea Times . December 31, 2010, accessed April 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Lee to conduct minor Cabinet reshuffle Wednesday. In: The Korea Herald . August 30, 2011, accessed April 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Bae Hyun-jung: Saenuri starts leadership vote amid factional divide. In: The Korea Herald . August 7, 2016, accessed April 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Fabian Kretschmer: Political Crisis in South Korea: Spaltpilz attacks ruling party. In: The daily newspaper . December 27, 2016, accessed February 5, 2017 .
  5. ^ Yeo Jun-suk: Bareun Party elects first leader. In: The Korea Herald . January 23, 2017, accessed February 5, 2017 .
  6. ^ Bareun Party's head resigns after Park unseated. In: The Korea Herald . March 10, 2017, accessed March 19, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Search results for Choung Byoung-gug at the National Electoral Commission. Retrieved April 8, 2017 (Korean).

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personal data
SURNAME Choung, Byoung-gug
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 정병국 (Korean, Hangeul); 鄭 柄 國 (Korean, Hanja); Jeong, Byeong-guk (Revised Romanization); Chŏng, Pyŏng-kuk (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaegun-myeon , Yangpyeong-gun , Gyeonggi-do