Yoon Jeung-hyun

Korean spelling
Hangeul	윤증현
Hanja	尹 增 鉉
Revised Romanization	Yun Jeung-hyeon
McCune- Reischauer	Yun Chŭnghyŏn
See also : Korean name

Yoon Jeung-hyun (born September 19, 1946 in Masan , Gyeongsangnam-do ) is a South Korean politician who was the acting Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea from August 11 to October 1, 2010 .

Life

After attending school, Yoon first studied law at Seoul National University , from which he graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He then completed his postgraduate studies of Public Administration at Seoul National University, which he in 1971 with a Master of Public Administration ended (MPA). He completed another postgraduate course at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1986 with a Master of Public Administration. He then joined the Ministry of Finance as a civil servant and worked there from April 6, 1987 to September 18, 1990, in the Department of Financial Policy and then from September 18, 1990 to August 8, 1992 as a hearing officer. He then acted from August 8, 1992 to May 7, 1994 as head of the department for government bonds and most recently between 7 May and 28 December 1994 as head of the department for financial policy.

Following the dissolution of the Ministry of Finance and the establishment of the Ministry of Finance and Economics, Yoon became General Representative for Hearings on December 28, 1994 and then head of the Monetary Policy Department from 1996, before he was last head of the Department of Monetary Policy from 1997 to 1998 until this ministry was dissolved Monetary policy was. He then acted from March 13, 1998 to June 1999 as dean of the National School of Taxes and between June 1999 and August 4, 2004 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) based in Manila as the responsible director for the countries of South Korea and Papua New Guinea , Vanuatu and Vietnam , before he was Chairman of the Commission for Financial Supervision from August 4, 2004, as the successor to Lee Jeong-jae until he was replaced by Gim Yong-deok in 2007.

On January 19, 2009, Yoon took over the post of Minister of Strategy and Finance from Kang Man-su in the cabinet of Prime Minister Han Seung-soo and held this position until May 5, 2011. After Chung Un-chan's resignation , he assumed the post of Executive Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea from August 11 to October 1, 2010 , before Kim Hwang-sik officially became the new Prime Minister on October 1, 2010. After leaving the government, he joined the Yun Gyeong-je Institute in June 2011 .

Web links

• PROFILE-South Korea's Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun ( Reuters )
• Executive Profile: Jeung-hyun Yoon ( Bloomberg LP )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ January 19, 2009
2. ↑ August 8, 2010
3. ^ South Korea: Prime Ministers

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yoon is the family name here, Jeung-hyun is the first name.