Cho Jung-hun

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In this Korean name, the family name is Cho.
Cho Jung-hun
조정훈
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
30 May 2020
ConstituencyProportional
President of Transition Korea
In office
23 February 2020 – 23 March 2020
Serving with
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byHong Seok-bin(acting)
Personal details
Born (1972-10-07) 7 October 1972 (age 49)
Seoul, South Korea
CitizenshipSouth Korean
Political partyTransition Korea
Other political
affiliations		Democratic (2016-2020)
Platform (2020)
Alma materYonsei University
John F. Kennedy School of Government
OccupationEconomist, politician

Cho Jung-hun (Korean: 조정훈, born 7 October 1972) is a South Korean economist and politician. He is one of the co-founders of the minor liberal Transition Korea party, along with Lee Won-jae.

Early life and education[]

Born in Seoul, Cho studied business administration at Yonsei University.[1] After qualifying for Certified Public Accountant, he earned a master's degree in international development at John F. Kennedy School of Government.[1][2][3] He passed the Young Professionals Programme of the World Bank.[1][2][3]

Career[]

From 2005 to 2008, Cho worked under the Technical Advisory Team of the World Bank where he worked as a part of negotiations for Kosovo independence and fiscal decentralization from Serbia.[2][4] Then from 2012 to 2014, he worked at the World Bank Palestine branch and helped a negotiation between Palestine and Israel.[2] Prior to entering politics, he worked at the World Bank Uzbekistan branch from 2014.[2][4] In Uzbekistan, he was not only managing the development work of the bank,[1][2][3] but was also consulting the economic development of the country.[2][4] After returning to his home country South Korea, he served as the Vice Chairman for Future Consensus Institute and the director of Ajou Institute of Unification.

Politics[]

Prior to the 2016 election, Cho was brought into the Democratic Party.[1][2][3] He applied for the Democratic list but was not officially registered.[4]

In 2020, Cho co-founded Transition Korea along with Lee Won-jae.[5] He was elected to be the party president but resigned in order to run under the Platform Party (sister satellite party to the Democratic Party) banner.[6] He ran 6th in the Platform Party list[6] and was elected. On 12 May 2020, Cho officially left the Platform Party and returned to his original party.[7]

Political positions[]

He is politically syncretic,[8] rejecting to be neither conservative nor liberal but being as pragmatic.[9] He supports transition to negative regulation, as well as 300,000 won (≒ ￡200) of basic income.[8]

He is also critical towards Anti-, saying that "renovation is from market but it should not be prevented at the beginning".[8] He also added that should TADA gives negative influences to taxi drivers, the benefits earned by TADA must be shared with taxi drivers rather than simply prohibiting the platform.[8]

He gained much support for his first interpellation session where he maintained a polite attitude asking unconventional questions. He pointed out the exacerbating economic disparity in the Korean society, and invited fellow politicians to take measures to alleviate polarization. [10]

Election results[]

General elections[]

Year Constituency Political party Votes (%) Remarks
2020 PR (6th) Platform Party[a] 9,307,112 (33.35%) Elected

Notes[]

  1. ^ Originally a member of Transition Korea but ran under the Platform Party banner. He officially left the party on 12 May 2020 in order to return to his original party.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "조정훈 세계은행 우즈벡대표, 더민주 입당". 23 February 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "더민주, 조정훈 세계은행 우즈베키스탄 대표 영입". 23 February 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "더불어민주당, 조정훈 세계은행 우즈베키스탄 사무소 대표 영입". 23 February 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d "[단독] 다시 눈뜨는 민주당 잠룡 조정훈 소장 '시대 전환' 운동 시작". 7 November 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  5. ^ "비정치인 2040 '시대전환' 창당…"모두에 월 30만원 기본소득"". 23 February 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  6. ^ a b "[4·15총선 인터뷰] 시민당 6번 조정훈 "코로나19發 딥체인지에 정부 역할 커질 것"". 13 April 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  7. ^ "더불어시민당, 용혜인·조정훈 제명 의결…기본소득당·시대전환당 복귀". 12 May 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d "조정훈 "혁신 위한 정부 역할은 모든 규제 푸는 것"". 13 May 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  9. ^ "김종인 지지 '시대전환' "20여명 후보낼 것, 기본소득 공약"". 29 January 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  10. ^ 진보정당 초선의원의 신박한 대정부질문 / KBS뉴스(News). YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-09.

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