Yun Chi-yeong
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| Korean spelling | |
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| Hangeul | 윤치영 |
| Hanja | 尹致瑛 |
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Revised Romanization |
Yun Chi-yeong |
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McCune- Reischauer |
Yun Ch'iyŏng |
Yun Chi-yeong (born February 10, 1898 in Hanseong , then Korea , now South Korea ; † February 9, 1996 in Seoul , South Korea) was an independence activist and politician of South Korea. He used the pseudonym Dongsan ( kor .: 동산 ). He was the country's first interior minister in 1948 and was a member of the South Korean parliament for the first, second and third electoral terms. After leaving parliament in 1956, he taught at a university for three years.
From 1963 to March 1966, he was the mayor of Seoul .
In 1968 he became chairman of the Minju Gonghwadong ( 민주 공화당 ) party of the then South Korean President Park Chung-hee .
Web links
- CV ( memento from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on Nate -People (Korean)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Yoon Taeil |
Mayor of Seoul December 1963 to March 1966 |
Kim Hyonok |
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| SURNAME | Yun, Chi-yeong |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yun, Chi-young; 윤치영 (Hangeul); 尹致瑛 (Hanja) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanseong , former Korea , now South Korea |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1996 |
| Place of death | Seoul , South Korea |