Shin Hyeon-hwak

Shin Hyeon-hwak (born October 29, 1920 in Shitsukoku , Keishō-hokudō Province , former Japanese Empire , now South Korea ; † April 26, 2007 in Seoul , South Korea) was a South Korean politician and manager .

biography

After attending school, he began in 1938 to study in Keijō at the Imperial University of Keijō , which he finished in 1943. During the tenure of President Rhee Syng-man , he was Minister for Reconstruction between 1959 and 1960.

In 1973 he was elected as a candidate for the then ruling Democratic Republican Party (DRP) by President Park Chung-hee as a member of the National Assembly (Gukhoe) . In 1975 President Park appointed him Minister of Health and Social Affairs in Prime Minister Choi Kyu-ha’s cabinet . After a cabinet reshuffle, he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Planning in 1978 . In 1979 he was re-elected to the National Assembly as a representative of the DRP.

After Park's assassination, he became Prime Minister himself on December 12, 1979, after Choi succeeded Park as the new President of South Korea. He held the post of Prime Minister until General Chun Doo-hwan took office on May 22, 1980. Shin then went into the private sector and became a manager at the Samsung Group , the largest conglomerate ( Jaebeol ) in the country. From 1986 to 1991 he was chairman of the board of directors of Samsung C&T Corporation , the company's trading and construction division.

Web links

• rulers.org

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Shin is the family name here, Hyeon-hwak is the first name.