Jung Hong-won

Korean spelling
Hangeul	정홍원
Hanja	鄭 烘 原
Revised Romanization	Jeong Hong-won
McCune- Reischauer	Chŏng Hongwŏn
See also : Korean name

Jung Hong-won (born October 9, 1944 in Hadong , Gyeongsangnam-do ) is a South Korean politician and was the 42nd Prime Minister of South Korea from 2013 to 2015  . He is a member of the conservative Saenuri party .

Before entering politics, he studied law at Sungkyunkwan University . He then worked as a prosecutor , resigned in 2012 and was then the first candidate for the office of Prime Minister in the government of President Park Geun-hye . After confirmation by the South Korean National Assembly , he was sworn in on February 26, 2013.

After the reaction of the government of South Korea to the accident involving the Sewol ferry came under massive criticism, Jung Hong-won offered to resign on April 27, 2014. President Park Geun-hye accepted it, but said he should stay in office until the ship was recovered. On February 16, 2015, he was replaced by Lee Wan-koo .

Web links

• Jung Hong-won biography on the Prime Minister's official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ South Korea: After the ferry accident: South Korea's Prime Minister offers to resign ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Stuttgarter Nachrichten / dpa, April 27, 2014
2. ↑ South Korea's Prime Minister resigns due to a ferry failure. FAZ , April 27, 2014, accessed on April 27, 2014 . 
3. ↑ South Korea has a new prime minister. In: Handelsblatt . February 16, 2015, accessed February 18, 2015 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Kim Hwang-sik	Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea February 26, 2013 - February 16, 2015	Lee Wan-koo

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