Chung Sye-kyun

Chung Sye-kyun

Chung Sye-kyun (Korean: ???; Hanja: ???; born 5 November 1950) is a South Korean politician, former Speaker of the National Assembly, and the current Prime Minister of South Korea. He was previously leader of the main opposition Democratic Party between 2008 and 2010, and twice chairman of its predecessor, the Uri Party, first on an interim basis from October 2005 to January 2006 and then fully from February 2007 until the Uri Party's dissolution in August of that year. On 9 June 2016, he was elected to a two-year term as the Speaker of the National Assembly. Upon becoming the Speaker, following the law that the Speaker cannot be a member of a party, he left the Democratic Party of Korea. His membership of the party was restored automatically when his term as Speaker expired on 29 May 2018.

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