Won Yoo-chul

Won Yoo-chul in July 2010

Korean spelling
Hangeul	원유철
Hanja	元 裕 哲
Revised Romanization	Won Yucheol
McCune- Reischauer	Wŏn Yuch'ŏl
See also : Korean name

Won Yoo-chul (born October 25, 1962 in Pyeongtaek , South Korea ) is a conservative South Korean politician and member of the Gukhoe , where he has represented seat A of the city of Pyeongtaek since 2008. He was previously a member of the Gukhoe between 1996 and 2004. Won is the party leader of the Mirae-hanguk-Party , the satellite party of the Mirae-tonghap-Party , which was founded for the proportional representation of the general election in South Korea in 2020 .

Won holds a degree in Philosophy from Korea University .

After the Saenuri party was defeated in the parliamentary elections in South Korea in 2016 , Won became the interim leader of the Saenuri party. At the end of 2019, Won criticized the fact that South Korea had sent two North Korean refugees back to North Korea as a violation of humanity and international law, as well as a premeditated murder . He also condemned the Moon Jae-ins government's supposedly hesitant response to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea .

Web links

• Profile on the Gukhoe website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Korea Herald: Ruling party reeling from election rout. April 14, 2016, accessed April 12, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Choe Sang-Hun: 2 North Koreans Tried to Defect. Did Seoul Send Them to Their Deaths? In: The New York Times . December 18, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 12, 2020]).
3. ↑ Main opposition party stoking 'China-phobia'. January 30, 2020, accessed April 12, 2020 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Won is the family name here, Yoo-chul is the first name.