Chung Hong-won

show This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Korean. (February 2013) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Korean article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 418 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Korean Wikipedia article at [[:ko:정홍원]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|ko|정홍원}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

His Excellency Chung Hong-won
정홍원
38th Prime Minister of South Korea
In office 26 February 2013 – 16 February 2015
President	Park Geun-hye
Preceded by	Kim Hwang-sik
Succeeded by	Lee Wan-koo
Personal details
Born	(1944-10-09) 9 October 1944 (age 76) Kato County, Japanese Korea (now Hadong County, South Korea)
Political party	Saenuri Party
Alma mater	Sungkyunkwan University

Chung Hong-won^[1] (Korean: 정홍원; born 9 October 1944^[2]) is a former Prime Minister of South Korea. He served from 26 February 2013^[3] to 16 February 2015.

Early life and education[]

Chung graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (undergraduate) from Sungkyunkwan University.^[4] After passing the Judicial Examination,^[5] he became a prosecutor.

Career[]

Chung became known after solving several high-profile cases, such as the Lee-Chang scandal,^[4] in which relatives of President Chun Doo-hwan were prosecuted, and the Walker Hill Casino scandal.^[4]

Chung resigned from his job as a prosecutor in 2003 and then served the president of the Institute of Justice.^[6] From 2004 to 2006, he served as the Standing Commissioner of the Republic of Korea National Election Commission.^[7] From 2008 to 2011, he served as the president of Korea Legal Aid Corporation.^[8]

Before the 2012 general election, he entered the Saenuri Party. On 8 February 2013, he was nominated as the first Prime Minister of President-elect Park Geun-hye's government. On 26 February 2013, after the National Assembly of South Korea confirmed his nomination, he was formally sworn in. On 27 April 2014, he tendered his prime ministership resignation to the president following the Sinking of the MV Sewol on 16 April 2014, during which more than 300 people were killed.^[3] President Park accepted the resignation in principle, but Chung continued to lead the Cabinet after the search and rescue operations of the Sewol came to an end.^[9] Few were nominated to replace Chung, including Ahn Dae-hee, but none of them were able to replace him.

Chung was formally replaced as prime minister on 16 February 2015.^[10]

References[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jung Hong-won.

This article about a South Korean politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t