Hong Joon-pyo

Hong Jun-pyo in December 2017

Korean spelling
Hangeul	홍준표
Hanja	洪 準 杓
Revised Romanization	Hong Jun-pyo
McCune- Reischauer	Hong Chun-p'yo
See also : Korean name

Hong Jun-pyo (born December 5, 1954 in Changnyeong , Gyeongsangnam-do ) is a conservative South Korean politician and former member of the Gukhoe and former governor of Gyeongsangnam-do. He has also served twice as party leader of the Jayu-hanguk party .

biography

Hong was born in Gyeongsangnam-do in 1954 and studied Public Administration at Korea University . He then worked as a public prosecutor in Gwangju , Seoul and Ulsan . Among other things, he led corruption investigations against the former South Korean presidents Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo . In September 1994 he started working for the Ministry of Justice.

Hong took from May 1996 to March 1999 the Songpa-gu of Seoul in Parliament. From 2001 to 2012 he represented the Dongdaemun-gu on the same committee. In December 2012, he took office as governor of Gyeongsangnam-do . He held this until April 2017.

In 2011 he was chairman of the Hannara Party (and thus the forerunner of the Jayu Hanguk Party) from July to December. He was succeeded by the future president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, as the new party leader. Under her the party was renamed the Saenuri Party.

Hong's political style is described as populist . He is often compared to the President of the United States Donald Trump and is also known as Hong Trump . As his political role model, should he be elected president, he called Park Chung-hee .

2017 presidential election

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Hong Jun-pyo at a campaign rally in April 2017

On March 31, 2017, Hong won the Jayu Hanguk Party's internal primary and thus the nomination as its presidential candidate.

Hong Jun-pyo takes a tough approach to his country's security policy and relations with North Korea . In this position he is considered to be further to the right than Park Geun-hye . He advocates the use of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile defense system and advocates the relocation of American nuclear weapons in South Korea if China is not determined enough to exert pressure on the North Korean regime. Hong is considered a great friend of the United States and the People's Republic of China as cool. His first official act was to meet Donald Trump. Hong also rejects homosexuality and sees this as the alleged weakness of the South Korean armed forces . During the course of the election campaign, accusations were raised that while he was a student, Hong had obtained a drug for a friend that he could use to make a potential girlfriend docile on a date. He denied the allegations as a joke. He was also accused of sexism when Hong said that doing the dishes was work for women.

Hong lost the election to Moon Jae-in and received just over 24% of the vote.

Time after the presidential election

Shortly after his defeat in the presidential elections, he was re-elected chairman of the Jayu Hanguk party. He held this office until June 2018. In the meantime, Hwang Kyo-ahn has taken over the chairmanship of the party and Hong has since published his political views on the video platform YouTube . For this step, he cites Donald Trump's communication strategies as a model.

Hong vehemently criticizes Moon's government and compares its stance towards North Korea with the Munich Agreement of 1938 . Hong also sharply criticized the North Korean policy of Presidents Kim Dae-jung ( sunshine policy ) and Roh Moo-hyun ( northern policy ), claiming that North Korea used the resources it received to build its own nuclear weapons.

Web links

Commons : Hong Jun-pyo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Heejun Tae: Impact Player: Hong Jun-pyo. April 25, 2017, accessed November 2, 2019 . 
2. ↑ The Korea Herald: Hong bows out amid mounting calls for reform. December 9, 2011, accessed November 2, 2019 . 
3. ↑ 패륜 적 막말 포퓰리스트 홍준표. March 23, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2019 (Korean). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} South Korean presidential candidate denies 'date rape confession'. April 21, 2017, accessed November 2, 2019 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} Matthew Bevan for RN Breakfast: Meet the candidates in South Korea's unusual election. Retrieved May 8, 2017, November 2, 2019 (Australian English). 
6. ↑ 송상호: Hong scrambles to rally conservative voters amid military tensions. April 12, 2017, accessed November 2, 2019 . 
7. ^ ^{A b} Choe Sang-Hun, Russell Goldman: South Korea's Next President: A Look at the Leading Candidates . In: The New York Times . May 3, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( online [accessed November 2, 2019]).
8. ↑ [JTBC 대선 토론] 문재인 "동성애 합법화 반대"… 심상정 "유감 스럽다". Retrieved November 2, 2019 (Korean). 
9. ↑ KJ Kwon, Pamela Boykoff and James Griffiths CNN: South Korea election: Moon Jae-in declared winner. Retrieved November 2, 2019 . 
10. ^ The Korea Herald: Will new leader turn around Liberty Korea Party? July 2, 2017, accessed November 2, 2019 . 
11. ↑ 한국당 새 대표 에 황교안… 2 위 오세훈 · 3 위 김진태 (상보). February 27, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 (Korean). 
12. ↑ The Korea Herald: [News Focus] Firebrand politician Hong Joon-pyo returns as YouTuber. December 24, 2018, accessed November 2, 2019 . 
13. ^ South Korean conservative heavyweight warns against "facade of peace" between two Koreas. Retrieved November 2, 2019 . 
14. ↑ [News analysis] Experts retort claim that Kaesong Industrial Complex is a handout to N. Korea. Retrieved November 2, 2019 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Hong is the family name here, Jun-pyo is the first name.