Han Myung-sook
| Han Myeong-sook 한명숙 |
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| Prime Minister of South Korea | |
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In office 19 April 2006 – 7 March 2007 |
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| President | Roh Moo-hyun |
| Preceded by | Han Duck-soo (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Kwon O-kyu (Acting) |
| Minister for Environment | |
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In office 27 February 2003 – 16 February 2004 |
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| Prime Minister | Goh Kun |
| Preceded by | Kim Myung-ja |
| Succeeded by | Kwak Kyul-ho |
| Minister for Gender Equality | |
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In office 29 January 2001 – 26 February 2003 |
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| Prime Minister |
Lee Han-dong Chang Sang (Acting) Jeon Yun-churl (Acting) Chang Dae-hwan (Acting) Kim Suk-soo |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Ji Eun-hee |
| Personal details | |
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24 March 1944 Heijo, Japanese Korea (now Pyongyang, North Korea) |
| Political party |
National Congress for New Politics (Before 2000) Millennium Democratic Party (2000–2003) Uri Party (2003–2007) United New Democratic Party (2007–2008) Democratic Party (2008–2011) Democratic United Party (2011–2014) Minjoo Party (2014–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Park Seong-jun |
| Alma mater | Ewha Womans University |
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| Revised Romanization | Han Myeong-suk |
| McCune–Reischauer | Han Myŏngsuk |
Han Myeong-sook (born March 24, 1944; Korean: 한명숙 [han mjʌŋsʰuk]) was the Prime Minister of South Korea from April 2006 to March 2007. She is South Korea's first female prime minister (second female prime minister overall if the acting premiership of Chang Sang is included). She was from the United New Democratic Party (UNDP) as a member of the Korean National Assembly (representative) for Ilsan-gab, and is a graduate of Ewha Womans University in Seoul with a degree in French literature. She resigned as Prime Minister on March 7, 2007 and declared her presidential candidacy. But she did not succeed in the nominations. In 2008 she ran for parliament, but was not elected. However, in January 2012 she was elected leader of the main oppositional Democratic United Party (DUP) before the April legislative elections and became a member of parliament. But the liberals did not manage to defeat the ruling Saenuri Party and Han stepped down as party leader in April 2012. In August 2015, Han was convicted of receiving illegal donations at the amount of 900 million KRW, and sentence to two years in prison. She is ineligible to run for public office for ten years after her prison term. She became the first former prime minister of the Republic of Korea to serve a prison time.
She was imprisoned from 1979 to 1981 after she confessed to teaching pro-Communist ideas to workers, farmers and low-income women, but it is now accepted she was imprisoned for pro-Democratic activities. A government committee exonerated her of any wrongdoing in 2001, ruling her confession was elicited through torture.
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