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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 (1969-10-08) 8 October 1969 (age 47)
Goheung, South Jeolla, South Korea
Citizenship South Korean
Political party Minjoo Party of Korea
Alma mater Kyung Hee University
Website www.maumgil.net
Park Hong-keun
Hangul 박홍근
Hanja 朴洪根
Revised Romanization Bak Honggeun
McCune–Reischauer Pak Honggŭn

Park Hong-keun (Hangul박홍근; 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. 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, in the 2016 election he faced off another challenge from Kang, defeating him by a margin of 7.6 percent.

Supporting Chung Dong-young's bid in the 2007 presidential election, Park chaired the United New Democratic Party's Youth Campaign that year. 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.

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. 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.

Park received his undergraduate degree in Korean language at literature from Kyung Hee University, and went on to take a master's 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.


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