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Park Hyung-joon
박형준
Secretary-General of the National Assembly
In office
1 September 2014 – 20 June 2016
Preceded byChung Jin-seok
Succeeded byWoo Yoon-keun
Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs
In office
1 September 2009 – 16 July 2010
PresidentLee Myung-bak
Preceded byMaeng Hyung-kyu
Succeeded byChung Jin-seok
Member of the National Assembly
In office
30 May 2004 – 29 May 2008
Preceded byYoo Heung-soo
Succeeded byYoo Jae-jung
ConstituencySuyeong
Personal details
Born (1960-01-19) 19 January 1960 (age 64)
Choryang-dong, East District, Busan, South Gyeongsang
(now separated from South Gyeongsang)[1]
CitizenshipSouth Korean
Political partyPeople Power
Other political
affiliations		Popular (1990-1992)
DLP (1994-1995)
NKP (1995-1997)
GNP (1997-2012)
Saenuri (2012)
Independent (2012-2020; 2020)
UFP (2020)
SpouseCho Hyun
Alma materKorea University
OccupationEducator, journalist, politician

Park Hyung-joon (Korean: 박형준, born 19 January 1960) is a South Korean journalist, educator and politician. He is an incumbent professor of the Sociology Department and Graduate School of International Studies at Dong-a University.

Park represented the Grand National Party (GNP) in the National Assembly as the member of the Busan Suyeong constituency from 2004 until in 2008, when he was defeated to the independent candidate Yoo Jae-jung, who later returned to the GNP. Though he lost again to Yoo in 2012, he served as the Secretary-General of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2016. He also served as the Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs from 2009 to 2010 under the President Lee Myung-bak.

Prior to his political career, Park worked as a journalist of JoongAng Ilbo and Monthly Mal. Since 2010s, he has been a commentator in various programmes i.e. Battle of Tongues, Powerful Opponents, Let's Be Politicians and so on.

Early life and education

Park Hyung-joon was born in Choryang-dong, East District, Busan in 1960.[1] His father was a doctor, whom he described as "an iron hand in a velvet glove".[2] His family life was, however, unknown as he prefers to not talk about it.[2]

Park was educated at Daeil High School and Korea University.[3] While studying sociology at Korea University in 1980, he worked as an editor of the school magazine titled KU Culture (고대문화),[4] as well as joining anti-government protests.[2] During a protest on 13 May,[4] he ran away from the venue after he found the riot police firing tear gas, which later hit the wall of Plaza Hotel.[2][4] One of the shrapnels soon attacked his right eye and he was soon collapsed in the road.[2] Not only his legs were burnt, his right eye was also injured till being unable to see properly[4][5][6] regardless of wearing spectacles, in which he was later exempted from the national service.[2] He then continued postgraduate studies and following the graduation, he was hired at JoongAng Ilbo in 1983 and worked for 2 years.[2][3][4]

During the 1980s, Park was interested with left-wing ideologies i.e. Marxism.[2][4][7] Not only studying those ideologies,[2][4][7] he worked at left-leaning magazines, for example, Creation and Criticism and Reality and Science.[4] In June 1991, he was briefly an editor of Monthly Mal, along with Jung Tae-in, who later joined the Justice Party and became a progressive economist.[8]

Political career

In the early 1990s, Park was a founding member of the Popular Party;[2][6] others are Kim Moon-soo, Cha Myong-jin and Lee Jae-oh; all of them are now notable conservative figures.[9] The party was, however, won no seats in 1992 election and was deregistered.[6]

In 1993, Park was hired by Park Se-il, who was later appointed the Senior Secretary to the President for Policy Planning to the then President Kim Young-sam, to write and help the government's projects and policies.[4][10] He had completed The Plan and Strategy of Globalisation (세계화 구상과 전략) announced by the President Kim.[4][10]

From 1995, he hosted important television debates in Busan.[4] He was an emcee for the debate for the 1997 and 2002 presidential elections.[4] He also organised civic movements in Busan, such as establishing Forum New Thinking, Cultural City — Busan Creation Network[11] and Movement for Decentralisation of Busan.[4]

Park joined the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) instead of the de jure ruling Uri Party.[4][7] Despite of public criticism, he later revealed that the reason was to not just "rebuild" the GNP[4] but also run under the GNP banner was more likely to win in right-leaning Busan.[7] However, from what Sisa Journal reported was that he could not trust the leadership of the then President Roh Moo-hyun.[4] He was nominated the GNP candidate for Busan Suyeong constituency in 2004 election and competed against the ruling candidate Huh Jin-ho. Though he came behind to Huh at early polls,[12][13][14] he was successfully elected to the National Assembly.[4][6][15]

On 26 August 2006, while he was a member of the Culture and Tourism Committee of the National Assembly, several sources reported that Park, along with Kim Jae-hong, an MP of the Uri Party, had visited an arcade game exhibition held in Los Angeles, United States from 13 to 15 September 2005, using the money from game industry associations.[16][17] Amid criticisms, he said that it was an official visit suggested by the committee.[17] On 5 September, the Uri Party sued both Park and Kim to the Ethics Committee.[18] On 13 December, he was summoned by the prosecution for receiving 100 million won (≒ ￡63,000) from the CEO of Andamiro and a gift voucher association.[19][20] However, he was cleared of wrongdoing on 23 February 2007.[21]

During the 2007 presidential election, Park was one of the key figures helping the GNP presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak to be elected the country's President. Prior to the GNP presidential primary, he chose Lee instead of Park Geun-hye or Sohn Hak-kyu (quit the GNP before the primary) as he perceived that Lee is a "individualistic conservative" compared to Park who is a "nationalistic conservative".[7] He also emphasised that South Korea needs a good Machiavellist, which could be acquired via Lee.[7] Serving as the Spokesman to Lee,[22] he accused the Blue House's decision to sue Lee.[23] In the election on 19 December, Lee was officially elected the President of the Republic.[24]

Despite of his contributions, Park failed to get re-elected in 2008 election.[25][26][27] During the election, he contested against a pro-Park Geun-hye independent candidate Yoo Jae-jung.[26][25] At first, he was widely expected to get re-elected.[26] However, amid anti-campaigns from the Parksamo (a fan club to Park Geun-hye),[26] he only received 27,940 votes (41.96%), compared to Yoo who had received 36,577 votes (54.93%).[28] In this election, another pro-Lee Myung-bak figures i.e. Lee Jae-oh, Lee Bang-ho and Kim Hee-jung, also lost.[25][27]

Following the election, Park was appointed the Chief Spokesperson of the Blue House on 23 June.[29][30] On 31 August 2009, he became the Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs.[31]

In 2012 election, Park was set to contest under the banner of the then ruling Saenuri (successor of the GNP) banner.[32] This time, he faced a challenge from Yoo, who had already returned to the GNP (then Saenuri) following his election in 2008, at the preselection.[32] The party, however, suddenly changed the preselection methods, which was strongly objected by Park.[32] Park subsequently left the party and contested as an independent candidate.[33][34] He received 24,630 votes (29.59%) and was again defeated by Yoo.[35]

Post-political career

On 1 September 2014, Park was appointed the new Secretary-General of the National Assembly.[36] On 4 December 2015, he announced he would not contest for Suyeong in 2016 election.[37] His term as the Secretary-General of the National Assembly ended on 21 June 2016.[38]

Following the election lost in 2012, he has been involving in various programmes, such as Battle of Tongues, Powerful Opponents, Let's Be Politicians and so on. In 2017, he became the commentator of the conservative panel of the Battle of Tongues, replacing the incumbent Jun Won-tchack[39] who became a newsreader of TV Chosun.[40]

On 18 July 2017, at Battle of Tongues, Park harshly accused the main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) for not learning from its past mistakes i.e. 2016 political scandals.[41] He also added that the party is only targeting far-right and elderly voters.[41]

Return to politics

On 9 January 2020, Park was appointed the Chairman of the Advance Committee for Innovation and Unity, an organisation seeking the unity of centrist and conservative parties including the then Liberty Korea Party (LKP) and the New Conservative Party (NCP).[42][43] As a result, major conservative parties including both the LKP and the NCP was merged into the newly-formed United Future Party (UFP).[44]

On 9 March, prior to 2020 election, Park applied to nominate himself as a candidate for the Future Korea Party (FKP), the satellite party to the UFP.[45][46] He, however, retracted the decision within 2 hours following the public backlash of his decision.[45][46] He later apologised for the issue.[45][46]

In the general election, the UFP-FKP alliance only secured 103 out of 300 seats, the worst result as a major conservative party since 1988.[47] The party president, Hwang Kyo-ahn, who contested for Jongno, was also defeated by the former Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon.[48] Park cited that the party lost about 30 seats due to hate speeches and defamatory remarks of its several candidates.[49] The party renamed itself to the People Power Party (PPP).[50][51]

On 29 October, Park officially rejoined the PPP, the same day when the former President Lee Myung-bak was sentenced to 17 years in jail.[52][53]

2021 Busan mayoral election

The resignation of the Mayor of Busan Oh Keo-don on 23 April 2020 following the allegations of sexual harassment has provoked the by-election in 2021.[54][55]

Prior to the election, Park was considered one of the potential candidate of the UFP (then PPP), along with an ex-MP Lee Un-ju, the former Mayor Suh Byung-soo, the former Dongnae Mayor Lee Jin-bok and so on.[56][52][53][1] On 31 August, The Kookje Daily News had reported that Park was considering to run for the election.[57]

On 15 December, Park officially launched his bid for Busan mayorship at Busan Port International Exhibition & Convention Centre.[58][59] Following are the manifestos included in his declaration:[58][59]

Since November 2020, various polls are showing that he has been the most favourable candidate of the PPP.[60][61][62][63][64][65]

Political orientation

Formerly a left-wing Marxist,[2][4][7][66] Park's political stance has been moved to centre-right.[67][68] In 2007, he also declared himself as a "centre-right".[7] During the administration of Lee Myung-bak, he set the government's stance as centrist pragmatism.[69]

Nowadays, Park is critical towards left-wing ideology.[66] He criticised South Korean leftists as "being too nationalistic in front of reunification issues".[70] He also calls the Moon Jae-in government's policy to increase the minimum wage to 10,000 won (≒ ￡6.7) as a "populist policy".[70]

Personal life

Park married to Cho Hyun, a businesswoman who has been operating Cho Hyun Gallery (World Gallery before 2008) since 1990.[71][72] Her mother died in 2009.[73] Both has a son and a daughter.[29][74]

Works

Television

Year Title Network
2013-2019 Battle of Tongues JTBC
2013 The Last Power SBS
2014-2018 Issue Talk — We Will Tell You Issues MBC
2019-2020 Let's Be Politicians KBS
2019- Powerful Opponents TV Chosun

Books

  • Modern Society and Ethics (1990)
  • Modern Labour Process Theory (1991)
  • Modern Society and Ideology (1992)
  • Frontier of the 21st Century (1994)
  • Digitisation — The Meaning in the History of Civilisation and the Way of National Strategy (1996)
  • Understanding the 21st Century (1997)
  • Reflective Civil Society and Citizens' Movement (2001)
  • A Study on the Application of Regulatory Negotiations (2007)
  • Reconstitution of Conservatism (2019)

Election results

Year Constituency Political party Votes (%) Remarks
2004 Suyeong GNP 50,803 (58.80%) Won
2008 Suyeong GNP 27,940 (41.96%) Defeated
2012 Suyeong Independent 24,630 (29.59%) Defeated

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