Han Myung-sook
Korean spelling | |
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Hangeul | 한명숙 |
Hanja | 韓明淑 |
Revised Romanization |
Han Myeong-suk |
McCune- Reischauer |
Han Myŏngsuk |
Han Myung-sook (born March 24, 1944 in Heijō , Heian-nandō Sub - Province, Chōsen Province , former Japanese Empire , today's North Korea ) was the first female Prime Minister of South Korea in history. Her predecessor Lee Hae-chan resigned on March 15, 2006 because of the so-called golf game affair , he had played golf during a major strike. Until her inauguration, Han Duck-soo took over the duties of Prime Minister.
She graduated from Ewha Women's University in 1967 with a Bachelor of French Language and Literature . In 1986 she obtained a Masters in Women's Studies.
She came to politics through her husband, a professor and dissident, and was an activist at the Christian Academy . In 1979 she was sentenced to two years in prison under dictator Park Chung-hee , which she served under Chun Doo-hwan . She was later rehabilitated.
In 2000 she was elected to parliament. Like the then President Roh, she belonged to the liberal Yeollin-uri party ( 열린 우리당 , Yeollin-uri-dang, Our Open Party) and is considered a moderate politician. She was South Korea's first female minister for gender equality and family in 2001, and in 2003 she was minister for the environment. Kim Dae-jung had proposed a wife to Chang Sang in 2002; but it was rejected by parliament.
The Yeollin-uri party merged in 2008 with the Sae-cheonnyeon-minju party ( 새천년 민주당 , Sae-cheonnyeon-minju-dang, Millennium Democratic Party) to form the Minju party ( 민주당 , Democratic Party), which in turn joined in December 2011 the Citizen Integration Party to the Minju-tonghap Party ( 민주 통합 당 , Minju-tonghap-dang, United Democratic Party). Han Myung-sook was elected party leader at the party's first congress on January 15, 2012. After her party's defeat in the parliamentary elections in South Korea in 2012 , she announced that she was stepping down from her position as party leader.
Web links
- Official Website (Korean)
- Report by the NZZ on the nomination of Han Myung-sook ( memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Report of the Netzeitung for confirmation by the Parliament ( Memento of March 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ DUP boss Han Myung-sook resigns due to electoral defeat. In: KBS World. April 13, 2012, Retrieved April 13, 2012 .
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Lee Hae-chan |
Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea April 20, 2006 - March 7, 2007 |
Han Duck-soo |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Han, Myung-sook |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 한명숙 (Hangeul); 韓明淑 (Hanja) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean Prime Minister |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1944 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Heijō , Heian-nandō Sub - Province, Chōsen Province, former Japanese Empire, today's North Korea |