Yu Shyi-kun
| Yu Shyi-kun | |
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| 游錫堃 | |
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| 11th Chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party | |
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In office January 15, 2006 – September 21, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Su Tseng-chang |
| Succeeded by | Chen Shui-bian |
| Premier of the Republic of China | |
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In office 1 February 2002 – 1 February 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Chang Chun-hsiung |
| Succeeded by | Frank Hsieh |
| Vice Premier of the Republic of China | |
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In office 20 May 2000 – 27 July 2000 |
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| Premier | Tang Fei |
| Preceded by | Liu Chao-shiuan |
| Succeeded by | Chang Chun-hsiung |
| Magistrate of Yilan County | |
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In office 20 December 1989 – 20 December 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Chen Ding-nan |
| Succeeded by | Liu Shou-ch'eng |
| Personal details | |
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April 25, 1948 Dongshan, Yilan County, Taiwan |
| Nationality | Republic of China |
| Political party |
Democratic Progressive Party (-present) Chinese Youth Party (1966-1975) |
| Spouse(s) | Yang Pao-yu |
| Alma mater |
National Chung Hsing University Tunghai University |
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| Traditional Chinese | 游錫堃 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 游锡堃 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yóu Xíkūn |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Iû Siah-khun |
Yu Shyi-kun (Chinese: 游錫堃; born April 25, 1948), a Taiwanese politician. He led the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as chairman from 2006 to 2007. He previously served as Premier of the Republic of China from 2002 to 2005. As one of the founding members of the DPP, he is seen as a loyalist of President Chen Shui-bian.
Born in Taihe Village (太和村), Dongshan Township, Yilan County, Yu was raised in a poor tenant farming family. When he was 13, his house was destroyed by flood waters during typhoon Pamela, and his father died of tuberculosis in the same year. He quit junior high school to work full-time on his family farm.
At 19, he studied at the supplementary night school of the Lotung Commercial High School. He moved to Taipei to enroll in the supplementary school of the Hsihu Commercial and Industrial High School. He studied international commerce at the Chihlee Institute of Technology (致理商專) and public administration at the National Chung Hsing University. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in politics in Tunghai University in 1985 at the age of 37.
In 1981 he was elected a member of the Taiwan Provincial Assembly for Yilan County. Yu, Su Tseng-chang, and Hsieh San-sheng made the so-called "iron triangle" in the Assembly. The three were the only members ever to resign from the Assembly.
From 1983 to 1984 he was the Tangwai Secretary-General. He became Convener of Tangwai National Election Backing Committee in 1986. As a founding member of the Democratic Progressive Party, he was a member of its Central Committee from 1984 to 1986 and its Central Standing Committee from 1986 to 1990 when he was elected a Magistrate of Ilan County, during which he was a member of the Educational Reform Committee of the Executive Yuan from 1994 to 1996. In his second term of magistrate, Environmental Protection (環保立縣), Tourism (觀光立縣), Information Promotion (資訊立縣), and Culture (文化立縣) were his four main goals in administration. The successful planning and execution let him ranked the first one of 27 mayors/magistrates in Taiwan. After the completion of his two terms as magistrate in 1997, he was in 1998 appointed Chairman of the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation by then Mayor Chen Shui-bian. He resigned in 1999 to become Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party.
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