Lee Hoi-chang

Lee Hoi-chang (2010)
Korean spelling
Hangeul	이회창
Hanja	李會昌
Revised Romanization	I hoe-chang
McCune- Reischauer	Yi Hoech'ang
See also : Korean name

Lee Hoi-chang (born June 2, 1935 in the former sub-province of Kōkaidō , Chōsen Province , Japanese Empire , today's North Korea ) is a former South Korean Prime Minister . He was also a constitutional judge and two-time presidential candidate for the right-wing conservative Hannara Party ( 한나라당 , Hannara-dang, Great National Party).

A prosecutor's son is a career bureaucrat. In 1981 he became the youngest constitutional judge in the history of South Korea . From December 1993 to April 1994 he was Prime Minister for the New Korea Party under Kim Young-sam , but resigned because of insufficient powers.

After the NKP merged with another party to form Hannara-dang in 1997 , Lee was supported by the respected economist and mayor of Seoul, Cho Soon .

Initially he had a reputation for personal integrity and was initially considered a favorite against Kim Dae-jung , but because of the serious accusation in South Korea that his sons had avoided military service, he was on the defensive and lost 38.7% to 40 , 3%.

In April 2000 the Hannara party surprisingly won the parliamentary election, in May 2000 he was confirmed as party leader with 66.3% of the votes and in 2002 he ran again for the presidential election.

The candidate of suffering from corruption scandals ruling party Millennium Party hyun Moo-Roh was him with the support of Chung Mong-joon and a modern perceived election campaign hit again, with 48.9% against 46.4% 70.8% turnout, much less than in the election before. As a result, Lee temporarily withdrew from politics in 2002.

He continued to express himself in the media on political issues, but was considered unlikely in future elections. In 2006 , his supporters publicly called for a comeback. He then ran for the presidential election as a non-party candidate the following year . But he was defeated by the official candidate of the Hannara party, Lee Myung-bak , with a share of the vote of 15.1% and took third place behind Chung Dong-young of the Yeollin-uri party ( 열린 우리당 , Yeollin-uri-dang, Our Open Party). After this defeat he founded the Jayu Seonjin Party ( 자유 선진 당 , Jayu-Seonjin-dang, Liberal Progressive Party). In the parliamentary elections in 2008 this still achieved 6.8% of the vote.

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• BBC Bio

predecessor	Office	successor
Hwang In-sung	Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea December 17, 1993 - April 22, 1994	Lee Yung-dug

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Hoi-chang is the first name.