Woo Won-shik
| Woo Won-shik | |
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| 우원식 | |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 30 May 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Kwon Young-jin |
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In office 30 May 2004 – 29 May 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Im Chae-jung |
| Succeeded by | Kwon Young-jin |
| Constituency | Seoul Nowon B |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
18 September 1957 Seoul, South Korea |
| Citizenship | South Korean |
| Political party | Minjoo Party of Korea |
| Alma mater | Yonsei University |
| Website | 우원식.kr |
| Woo Won-shik | |
| Hangul | 우원식 |
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| Hanja | 禹元植 |
| Revised Romanization | U Wonsik |
| McCune–Reischauer | U Wŏnsik |
Woo Won-shik (Hangul: 우원식; Hanja: 禹元植; born 18 September 1957) is a South Korean politician in the liberal Minjoo Party of Korea, who has been a member of the National Assembly for Nowon, Seoul, since 2012. He previously represented the same constituency between 2004 and 2008.
A descendant of the Goryeo-era Neo-Confucian scholar U Tak, Woo was born in Seoul in 1957 and studied civil engineering at Yonsei University, later receiving a master's degree in environmental studies from the same university. He was arrested and sentenced to three years of penal labor under the Chun Doo-hwan regime in 1981 for taking part in protests demanding Chun's resignation.
Woo was elected to the National Assembly in 2004 as an Uri Party candidate in the Nowon B constituency in Seoul. Early in his Assembly career, Woo pressed for the abolition of South Korea's National Security Law, and attacked the Supreme Court in 2004 for backing the permanence of the law. Later, in 2007, he criticized the U.S. armed forces in Korea for the poor environmental conditions on American military bases. He ran unsuccessfully for chairman of the United New Democratic Party in the leadership election on 10 January 2008, losing to Sohn Hak-kyu. He lost his seat in the 2008 elections, but stood successfully in the next elections in 2012.
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