Kwak Pŏm-gi

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	곽범기
Revised Romanization	Gwak Beom-gi
McCune- Reischauer	Kwak Pŏm'gi
See also : Korean name

Kwak Pŏm-gi is a North Korean politician. From 1998 to 2010 he was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Vice Prime Minister) and since 2012 Chairman of the Budget Commission of the Supreme People's Assembly .

Kwak Pŏm-gi has headed a North Korean engineering factory since 1983, then rose to become vice-chairman and eventually chairman of the Labor Party of Korea's Mechanical Industry Commission in the 1990s . In 1993 he became a candidate of the Central Committee of the party and in 1998 he was deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers, first under Prime Minister Hong Sŏng-nam , then under Kim Yŏng-il . In the late 1990s, he represented North Korea in business negotiations with Nigeria . 2000 he met in Pyongyang with Yun Jong-yong , vice-president of the South Korean Samsung Group together. Two years later he was also present at the laying of the foundation stone of the first cross-border railway line between North and South Korea in Kaesŏng .

Web links

• Profile on the website of the South Korean Broadcasting Corporation ( KBS )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All Talk and No Reform? nknews.org of September 25, 2012 (English)
2. ^ 6th session of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK http://kfaswitzerland.blogspot.de on September 26, 2012

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kwak is the family name here, Pŏm-gi is the first name.