Cho Yoon-sun
| Cho Yoon-sun | |
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| 조윤선 | |
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| Member of the 18th National Assembly | |
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In office 30 May 2008 – 29 May 2010 |
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| Constituency | Proportional representation |
| Minister of Gender Equality and Family | |
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In office 26 February 2013 – 13 June 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Chung Hong-won |
| Senior Secretary for Political Affairs | |
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In office 12 June 2014 – 18 May 2015 |
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| President | Park Geun-hye |
| Preceded by | Park Jun-woo |
| Succeeded by | Hyun Gi Hwan |
| Minister of Culture | |
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In office 5 September 2016 – 21 January 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Hwang Kyo-ahn |
| Preceded by | Kim Jong-deok (Professor Hongik University) |
| Succeeded by | Song Soo-geun (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
22 July 1966 Seoul, South Korea |
| Political party | Saenuri Party |
| Alma mater |
Seoul National University Columbia University |
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| Hangul | |
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Cho Yoon-sun (born 22 July 1966) is a South Korean lawyer, writer and politician. She formerly served as the South Korean Minister of Gender Equality and Family and later as its Minister of Culture.
Cho Yoon-sun was born on 22 July 1966 in Seoul. She attended Sehwa Girls' High School, graduating in 1984, and then Seoul National University where she received her bachelor's degree in International Relations in 1988. She later went to Columbia Law School where she received her Master of Laws degree in 2001.
She passed the Korean bar in 1991, and joined the Kim and Chang Law Firm where she became a partner. During the 2002 South Korean presidential election she worked as a spokesperson for Lee Choi-chang of the Grand National Party. She left Kim & Chang in 2006 to work for Citibank Korea where she became General Counsel and a managing director. She left Citibank Korea in 2008 when she was elected to the 18th South Korean National Assembly.
In 2010, together with General Baek Sun-yeop, Cho helped establish the Korean War Memorial Foundation which supplies scholarships to the descendants of veterans of the Korean War. Cho served as vice-chairperson of the foundation from July 2010 to March 2013. Beginning in July 2010, she acted as a goodwill ambassador for the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
In 2013, she was appointed as South Korea's Minister of Gender Equality and Family. In 2014, Cho left the ministry to become President Park Geun-hye's Senior Secretary for Political Affairs. However, she resigned that post in 2015 after failing to meet the president's goals for public employee pension reform. Cho then taught for a year at Sungshin Women's University's College of Law.
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