Park Hong-keun
| Park Hong-keun | |
|---|---|
| 박홍근 | |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
|
Assumed office 30 May 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Jin Seong-ho |
| Constituency | Seoul Jungnang B |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 October 1969 Goheung, South Jeolla, South Korea |
| Citizenship | South Korean |
| Political party | Minjoo Party of Korea |
| Alma mater | Kyung Hee University |
| Religion | Protestantism |
| Website | www.maumgil.net |
| Park Hong-keun | |
| Hangul | 박홍근 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 朴洪根 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Honggeun |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Honggŭn |
Park Hong-keun (Hangul: 박홍근; hanja: 朴洪根; born 8 October 1969) is a South Korean politician in the liberal Minjoo Party of Korea, presently a member of the National Assembly for Jungnang, Seoul, since 2012.[1] Originally elected to the Assembly in the Jungnang B constituency by a margin of 854 votes—0.9 percent—over his Saenuri Party competitor, Kang Dong-ho,[2] in the 2016 election he faced off another challenge from Kang, defeating him by a margin of 7.6 percent.[3]
Supporting Chung Dong-young's bid in the 2007 presidential election, Park chaired the United New Democratic Party's Youth Campaign that year.[4] He entered the Assembly in 2012. In September 2012, he submitted a legislative amendment allowing the government to rescind the licenses of businesses refusing to abide by local ordinances.[5]
In 2013, Park attacked the Park Geun-hye government for abetting, as he saw it, Japan's resumption of a right to collective self-defense under Shinzō Abe.[6] Subsequently, in the context of the controversy over the Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea, in December that year he noted the importance of Socotra Rock, an underwater reef disputed by South Korea and China. He stated that only two thirds of the middle- and high-school textbooks he had analyzed mentioned the reef, and called for textbooks to be revised to include information on it.[7][8]
Park received his undergraduate degree in Korean language at literature from Kyung Hee University, and went on to take a masters degree in public administration there. He was subsequently active in a number of civic groups, serving as co-president of the Korea Youth Corps and director of Volunteering Korea.[9]
References
- ↑ "Members Profile". National Assembly. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ "24 key battlegrounds to impact result of Korea's parliamentary elections". Arirang News. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ "'리턴매치'도 野 완승…59곳 중 34곳 승리". Newsis (in Korean). 15 April 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ "UNDP Chung Dong-young's camp facing uphill battle". WikiLeaks. 28 November 2007. WikiLeaks cable: 07SEOUL3410_a. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ Song, Jung-a (5 October 2014). "Costco vs Seoul: when Sunday comes...". Financial Times. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ "Dispute deepens over Japan's collective self-defense right". The Korea Times. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ "Korea stays tough on China air zone". Korea JoongAng Daily. 3 December 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ "박홍근 "역사교과서에 이어도 관련 내용 없어"" (in Korean). Yonhap News. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ "서울 중랑을 더불어민주당 박홍근" [Park Hong-keun, Minjoo Party of Korea, Jungnang B, Seoul]. Focus News (in Korean). 14 April 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2016.