Chung Sye-kyun

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Chung Sye-kyun (2010)
Chung Sye-kyun (2010)

Korean spelling
Hangeul 정세균
Hanja 丁 世 均
Revised
Romanization 		Jeong Se-gyun
McCune-
Reischauer 		Chŏng Sekyun

Chung Sye-kyun (born November 5, 1950 in Jinan , Jeollabuk-do ) is a South Korean politician of the Deobureo-minju party and Prime Minister of South Korea since January 14, 2020 . Chung has been a member of the National Assembly since 1996 , was Minister for Economy, Industry and Energy from February 10, 2006 to August 20, 2007, and has been Speaker of the National Assembly since June 9, 2016 .

Life

Early years and education

Chung Sye-kyun studied law at the Korea University Law School , the law faculty of Korea University , where he obtained his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1975 . In 1978 he started working for the Ssangyong Group and later managed its import-export operations in the USA in New York and Los Angeles . In New York, he received his Masters from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University in 1983 and his MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University in 1990 . In 2004, he received his PhD in Business Administration from Kyung Hee University .

politics

Chung's political career began in 1995 as a special adviser to Kim Dae-jung , who founded the Sae-jeongchi-gungmin-hoeui ( National Congress for New Politics ) that same year . A year later, Chung ran in the elections for the 15th National Assembly for the Sae-jeongchi-gungmin-hoeui for the direct mandate in the constituency of his birthplace and was able to win the direct mandate with 36,176 (68.9%) votes. During the legislative period he was a member of the Committee on Finance and Economics and chaired it from 1997 to 1998.

Chung defended his direct mandate in 2000 , this time for the Sae-cheonnyeon-minju party ( Democratic Party of the New Millennium ). After Roh Moo-hyun won the presidential election in South Korea in 2002 , he founded the Yeollin-uri Party ( 열린 우리당 , Yeollin-uri-dang, Our Open Party) in 2003, which Chung also joined. In the 2004 National Assembly election , Chung again won the direct mandate in his constituency with 78.1% of the vote. In January 2005 he was appointed leader of the Yeollin-uri party and on February 10, 2006, Roh Moo-hyun made him Minister of Economy, Industry and Energy. In February 2007, Chung was elected party chairman and was confronted with the task after Roh Moo-hyun announced his resignation from the Yeollin-uri party shortly afterwards and there were several waves of high-ranking politicians leaving the Yeollin-uri party to transfer to a new party. On August 5, 2007, the remaining members of the Yeollin-uri Party and other liberal splinter groups formed the Dae-tonghap-minju-sin Party (New Great United Democratic Party), which was renamed the Tonghap-minju Party in early 2008 .

In the election for the 18th National Assembly in 2008 , Chung stood for the Tonghap-minju party in his constituency and achieved direct entry into the National Assembly with 74% of the votes. In July 2008, the Tonghap Minju Party was renamed the Minju Party. In the election for chairman of the Minju party on July 6, 2008, Chung was able to prevail against Choo Mi-ae and Chyung Dai-chul and became the successor of Son Hak-gyu . In 2009, the ruling Hannara Party ( 한나라당 , Hannara-dang, Grand National Party) under President Lee Myung-bak began a reorganization of the broadcasting system, which included the privatization of the public broadcasters KBS and MBC . On July 24, 2009, Chung Sye-kyun and Chun Jung-bae resigned their seats in the National Assembly in protest and announced a nationwide 100-day wave of protests. Chung and 70 other party members returned to the National Assembly on August 27, 2009 after a month-long protest. In the local elections in May 2010 , the Minju Party won seven out of 16 governor and mayoral elections, but in the by-elections in July 2010 it was only able to win three out of eight by-elections to the National Assembly, instead of the six hoped for. Chung resigned as chairman of the Minju Party on August 2, 2010. Critics accused Chung of making the wrong candidate selection.

For the election to the 19th National Assembly in 2012 , Chung changed his constituency and stood in Jongno-gu , Seoul as a candidate for the Minju-tonghap party . There he defeated the ruling Saenuri Party ( Partei 당 , Saenuri-dang, New World Party) candidate, Hong Sa-duk , with 41,732 (52.3%) to 31,530 (44.8%) votes. In 2016 he was able to defend his mandate in the same constituency for the Deobureo-minju party against the former mayor of Seoul Oh Se-hoon with 44,342 (52.6%) to 33,490 (39.7%) of the vote.

On June 9, 2016, Chung was elected Speaker of Parliament with 274 of 287 votes . The day before, the parties had agreed on the chairmen of the 18 committees and the Saenuri party renounced the office of speaker of parliament. Chung won the internal election in the Minju Party and was run as its only candidate. Shim Jae-cheol from the Saenuri Party and Park Joo-sun from the Gungminui Party act as deputies . The term of office is the first two of the four years of the 20th legislative term. Since the law forbids the speaker of parliament from being a party member, Chung was automatically revoked; but after his term of office as speaker of parliament he will automatically receive this again.

On January 14, 2020, Chung took over the post of Prime Minister from Lee Nak-yeon .

Election results

The following table gives an overview of Chung Sye-kyun's election results.

year choice Constituency Political party Be right (%) Result
1996 Election to the 15th National Assembly Jeollabuk-do Jinan-gun, Muju-gun, Jangsu-gun Sae-jeongchi-gungmin-hoeui 36,176 (68.9%) elected
2000 Election to the 16th National Assembly Jeollabuk-do Jinan-gun, Muju-gun, Jangsu-gun Sae-cheonnyeon-minju-dang 34,165 (65.1%) elected
2004 Election to the 17th National Assembly Jeollabuk-do Jinan-gun, Muju-gun, Jangsu-gun, Imsil-gun Yeollin-uri-dang 45,475 (78.1%) elected
2008 Election to the 18th National Assembly Jeollabuk-do Jinan-gun, Muju-gun, Jangsu-gun, Imsil-gun Tonghap-minju-dang 35,566 (74.0%) elected
2012 Election to the 19th National Assembly Seoul Jongno-gu Minju-tonghap-dang 41,732 (52.3%) elected
2016 Election to the 20th National Assembly Seoul Jongno-gu Deobureo-minju-dang 44,342 (52.6%) elected

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Graziadio PKE Alumnus, Chung Sye-Kyun, Elected as Speaker of National Assembly. In: Newsroom, Pepperdine University. July 9, 2016, accessed February 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Kim Sue-young: Uri Disbands to Merge With Liberal Party. In: The Korea Times . August 19, 2007, accessed February 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Klemens Schwitzer: Cultural foundations of medialization in South Korea . A qualitative study using television as an example. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17359-7 , pp. 91-93 .
  4. ^ Main Opposition Party Returns to Assembly. In: The Korea Times . August 27, 2009, accessed February 4, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Tom Lansford (Ed.): Political Handbook of the World 2014 . CQ Press, Los Angeles 2014, ISBN 978-1-4833-3328-1 , pp. 779 .
  6. ↑ Patrick Köllner: South Korea in 2010: Domestic Politics and the Economy . In: Rüdiger Frank , James E. Hoare, Patrick Köllner and Susan Pares (Eds.): Korea 2011: Politics, Economy and Society . Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-21818-5 , pp. 26 .
  7. ↑ Kim Hyo-jin: Chung named Assembly speaker. In: The Korea Times . June 9, 2016, accessed February 4, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Search results for Chung Sye-kyun at the Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved February 4, 2017 (Korean).
predecessor Office successor
Lee Nak-yeon Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea
January 14, 2020 -
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, Sye-kyun is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Chung, Sye-kyun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 정세균 (Korean, Hangeul); 丁 世 均 (Korean, Hanja); Jeong, Segyun (Revised Romanization); Chŏng, Sekyun (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean politician and prime minister
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Jinan , Jeollabuk-do