Chung Sye-kyun

Chung Sye-kyun
정세균
Chung Sye-kyun in 2010
Speaker of the National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 June 2016
President	Park Geun-hye Hwang Kyo-ahn (Acting)
Preceded by	Chung Eui-hwa
Member of the National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 May 2012
Preceded by	Park Jin
Constituency	Seoul Jongno
In office 30 May 1996 – 29 May 2012
Constituency	Jinan–Muju–Jangsu (–Imsil from 2004)
Chairman of the Democratic Party
In office 7 July 2008 – 2 August 2010
Preceded by	Sohn Hak-kyu and Park Sang-chun
Succeeded by	Park Jie-won (acting)
Chairman of the Uri Party
In office 14 February 2007 – 20 August 2007
Preceded by	Kim Geun-tae
Succeeded by	Party dissolved
Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy
In office 10 February 2006 – 1 March 2007
President	Roh Moo-hyun
Preceded by	Lee Hee-bum
Succeeded by	Kim Young-joo
Personal details
Born	Jinan, North Jeolla, South Korea
Citizenship	South Korean
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Democratic Party of Korea (Until 2016)
Alma mater	Korea University New York University Pepperdine University Kyung Hee University
Religion	Christianity

Chung Sye-kyun (Hangul: 정세균; Hanja: 丁世均) is a South Korean politician currently serving as a member of the National Assembly for Jongno, Seoul, in the Democratic Party of Korea

He was previously leader of the main opposition Democratic Party between 2008 and 2010, and chairman of its predecessor the Uri Party twice, first on an interim basis from October 2005 to January 2006 and then fully from February 2007 until the Uri Party's dissolution in August that year. On June 9, 2016, he was elected the Speaker of the National Assembly, whose term is 2 years. As he had become the Speaker, following the law that does not permit Speaker handle a membership of a certain party, he defected from Democratic Party of Korea. His membership of the party will be restored automatically, when his term as Speaker expires on May 29, 2018.

Chung was born in the village of Donghyang () in Jinan, North Jeolla. From 1966 to 1969 he studied at Jeonju Shinheung High School () in Jeonju, where he was a student reporter and served as chairman of the student council. As an undergraduate he studied law at Korea University, and became chairman of the student union there, graduating in 1974. He was nominated as an alternate for a U.S. Asia-Pacific student leadership project in that year. He received a master's degree from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University in 1983, an MBA from Pepperdine University in 1993, and a doctorate from Kyung Hee University in 2000.