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Choung Byoung-gug is a South Korean politician and former Prime Minister of South Korea. He was the first Prime Minister of South Korea to be appointed by the President, and served from February 1998 to March 2000. He is currently a professor at Seoul National University and a member of the National Assembly.
Choung Byoung-gug was born on 10 February, 1958 in Gaegun-myeon, Yangpyeong-gun, South Korea. He is currently 66 years old.
Choung Byoung-gug is a South Korean politician and former Prime Minister of South Korea. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs around 70 kg.
Choung Byoung-gug is currently single. He has not been previously engaged.
Choung Byoung-gug's family includes his parents and siblings. He has two brothers and one sister.
Choung Byoung-gug is a South Korean politician and former Prime Minister of South Korea. He has served in various positions in the South Korean government, including Minister of Finance and Economy, Minister of Education, and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He is currently a professor at Seoul National University and a member of the National Assembly.
Choung Byoung-gug's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his political career and various other business ventures.
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66 years old |
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10 February 1958 |
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10 February |
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Bu-ri, Gaegun-myeon, Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea |
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South Korea |
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Choung Byoung-gug Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Choung Byoung-gug's Wife?
His wife is Lee Sang-hee (m. 1993)
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Lee Sang-hee (m. 1993) |
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Choung Byoung-gug Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
During his time as Minister, Pyeongchang won its bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Paralympics.
With the revelations of President Park Geun-hye's political scandals that led to her impeachment, Choung and 33 other Saenuri Assemblymen exited the party. In January 2017, he and his colleagues founded the center-right leaning Bareun Party. Choung was elected as its first Party Leader.
Choung was elected for the fourth time in 2012 and was elected again for his fifth term in March 2016. He was one of the few Saenuri incumbents to avoid defeat in the party's disastrous performance in the said election. He is currently serving as Assemblyman for the Gapyeong and Yeoju district. In June 2016, he announced his candidacy as Party Leader, but lost. Choung is considered to be more progressive and pro-reform compared to his peer conservative politicians.
Choung won in the 2000 South Korean legislative election for the Grand National Party and was re-elected in 2004. That year, he received Doctor of Philosophy degree in Political Science from Sungkyunkwan University. In 2007, he served as the Director of Public Affairs of the Grand National Party and served as its Secretary-General in 2010. He headed the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism following his appointment as Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism by President Lee Myung-bak in January 2011.
During his time as staff member, he participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program run by the U.S. Department of State. He graduated from Yonsei University's Graduate School of Public Administration in 1998.
Choung worked for Kim Young-sam's campaign as the Director of Public Affairs in the 1987 South Korean presidential election. After the election, he served as Kim's secretary in the Reunification Democratic Party between 1988 and 1990, and as secretary in the Democratic Liberal Party (later New Korea Party) between 1990 and 1992. With Kim's victory in the 1992 South Korean presidential election, he was appointed as staff member of the Office of the President at his age of 36, the youngest of any staff member in the Blue House.
After being discharged, he graduated from Sungkyunkwan University in 1984 and actively involved himself in democratization movements. With warrants issued for his arrest, Choung ran Sein Publisher that supplied anti-government materials to student organizations of Seoul colleges, and enthusiastically supported resistance against the military government. He was subsequently arrested in June 1987 and was sentenced to eighteen months in prison. He was tortured by the Agency for National Security Planning, the forebearer of the National Intelligence Service (South Korea), and was released upon the suspension of execution of his sentence following the June 29 Declaration.
Following the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth in 1980, he was arrested by Hanahoe, headed by General Chun Doo-hwan who forced him to choose between imprisonment and conscription. Choung chose conscription and volunteered for the Republic of Korea Marine Corps.
Upon matriculation, he actively involved himself in student movements. He was wanted by the police for this reason and while he was evading the authorities in 1979, he received the news of the assassination of President Park Chung-hee, to which he responded by returning to Seoul and heading the student movement to restore the National Student Council that had been dissolved under Park's dictatorship.
Choung Byoung-gug (born 10 February 1958) is a South Korean politician and the former head of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. He was the leader of the center-right Bareunmirae Party, and Chairman of the Special Committee on the 4th Industrial Revolution of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea.
Choung was born on 10 February 1958 in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province. He initially attended Gaegun Elementary School before transferring to Jeongdeok Elementary School in Seoul against his father's will of making him stay in Yangpyeong. After graduating from Jeongdeok Elementary School in 1970, he graduated from Yongmoon Middle School in 1973 and Sorabol High School in 1977. In 1978, he enrolled in the Department of Sociology at Sungkyunkwan University.
