Lee Hae-chan

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 이해찬
Hanja 李海 瓚
Revised
Romanization
I Hae-chan
McCune-
Reischauer
Yi Haech'an
Lee Hae-chan

Lee Hae-chan (born July 10, 1952 in Cheongyang , Chungcheongnam-do Province ) is a South Korean politician .

Lee was a student at Seoul State University in the 1980s and was involved in the South Korean democracy movement during his studies and afterwards. Since his first election to the National Assembly in 1988, he has been re-elected four times - successively for the Democratic Party, the Sae-cheonnyeon-minju-dang ( 새천년 민주당 , Democratic Party of the New Millennium) and the Yeollin-uri Party ( 열린 우리당 , Yeollin-uri-dang, Our Open Party). He was Minister of Education in the government of Kim Dae-jung ( 김대중 ) from 1998 to 1999 . After the elections in April 2004, he was proposed by President Roh Moo-hyun for the office of Prime Minister and on June 30, 2004, he was introduced to the office as the successor to Goh Kun . On March 14, 2006, he had to resign because of the so-called golf game affair. He'd played golf with friends instead of addressing the problem despite a nationwide railroad strike. In June 2012 he was elected chairman of the Minju-tonghap Party ( 민주 통합 당 , Minju-tonghap-dang, United Democratic Party). On May 4, 2013, Kim Han-gil replaced him in this position.

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Individual evidence

  1. Bae Hyun-jung: Lee Hae-chan elected new chairman of the main opposition party . In: The Korea Herold (June 9, 2012)
  2. Kim Han-gil Elected New Main Opposition Leader . KSB News , May 4, 2013, archived from the original on November 11, 2013 ; accessed on April 25, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
predecessor Office successor
Goh Kun Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea
June 30, 2004 to March 14, 2006
Han Myung-sook