Park Seh-jik

Korean spelling
Hangeul	박세직
Hanja	朴 世 直
Revised Romanization	Bak Se-jik
McCune- Reischauer	Pak Sejik
See also : Korean name

Park Seh-jik, 1986

Park Seh-jik (born September 18, 1933 , † July 27, 2009 ) was a South Korean sports official and politician. As President of the Organizing Committee, he directed the organization of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul .

Park began his career in the military . In 1956 he graduated from the Military Academy and then studied at the University of Southern California . After graduating, he served in various military units until he became deputy director of the National Security Agency . In 1982 he was released from service as major general. Park Seh-jik was appointed Minister of Government Administration in 1985. That same year, just two months later, under Roh Tae-woo, he became Vice President of the Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee . He succeeded Lee Yonh-ho to the post of Minister of Sport on January 7, 1986 . On March 13, 1986, he finally took over the chairmanship of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games after Roh had taken over the chairmanship of the Democratic Justice Party . He kept this position until the games.

After the end of the Olympic Games, he took on various roles in the South Korean NOK until he was elected President of the Korean Veterans' Association in 2006. From December 27, 1990 to February 19, 1991 he was mayor of Seoul and from 1992 to 2000 a member of the South Korean National Assembly .

Park was married with three children, two sons and a daughter.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jung Sung-ki: Chief of Veterans' Association Dies. In: koreatimes.co.kr. The Korea Times , July 27, 2009, accessed May 22, 2020 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Goh Kun	Mayor of Seoul December 1990 to February 1991	Rhee shark-won

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Park is the family name here, Seh-jik is the first name.