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Hong Joon-pyo | |
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| Member of the National Assembly | |
| Assumed office 30 May 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Joo Ho-young |
| Constituency | Daegu Suseong B |
| In office 30 May 1996 – 9 March 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Cho Soon-hwan |
| Succeeded by | Lee Hoi-chang |
| Constituency | Seoul Songpa A |
| In office 26 October 2001 – 29 May 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Kim Young-koo |
| Succeeded by | Min Byung-doo |
| Constituency | Seoul Dongdaemun B |
| Leader of the Grand National Party/Liberty Korea Party | |
| In office 4 July 2011 – 9 December 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Jeong Ui-ha |
| Succeeded by | Na Kyung-won |
| In office 3 July 2017[1] – 14 June 2018[2] | |
| Preceded by | Chung Woo-taik |
| Succeeded by | Kim Sung-tae |
| Governor of South Gyeongsang Province | |
| In office 20 December 2012 – 9 April 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Kim Doo-kwan |
| Succeeded by | Kim Kyoung-soo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 November 1953 Changnyeong, South Korea |
| Political party | People Power |
| Other political affiliations | Independent (March 2020–June 2021) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | See Namyang Hong clan |
| Alma mater | Korea University |
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| Revised Romanization | Hong Jun-pyo |
| McCune–Reischauer | Hong Chun-p'yo |
Hong Joon-pyo (born 20 November 1953), also spelled as Hong Jun-pyo, is a South Korean politician and former prosecutor. As a former prosecutor, he joined politics later and was elected as a member of the 15th,16th,17th,18th, and 21st National Assebmly and the 35th, 36th Governor of South Gyeongsang Province.
Early life and career edit
Hong passed the bar examination in 1982, graduated the Judicial Research and Training Institute and started working as a prosecutor in 1984. Hong, as a prosecutor, handled cases related to political corruption and gang crimes. After he was forced to resign from the prosecution service in 1995 for prosecuting a higher ranking prosecutor, he joined the New Korea Party, suggested by President Kim Youngsam and was elected as the member of the 15th National Assembly in 1996. In 1999, both his right to be elected and membership for the 15th National Assembly was revoked for violating the electoral law. After his right to be elected was executively restored in 2000 by President Kim Daejung, he ran for and was elected as the member of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 21st National Assembly. In the 18th National Assembly, he was elected as the 12th chairman of the Grand National Party. From 2012 to 2017, he served as the 35th and 36th Governor of South Gyeongsang Province. In 2017, he ran for the 2017 South Korean presidential election as the candidate of the Liberty Korea Party as the Mop-up Pitcher after the party's president was impeached, and due to the impeachment of the party's president, he lost the election against Moon Jae-in.
Hong ran as a candidate in the 2022 South Korean presidential election for the nomination of the conservative People Power Party and came in second place during the primaries, winning against Yoon Seok-youl in the public polls by 10%p but losing to Yoon Seok-youl in the party polls by double score.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Will new leader turn around Liberty Korea Party?". The Korea Herald. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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