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First Lady Of South Korea
The first lady of the Republic of Korea (, informally referred to as FLOTROK or FLOSK), commonly known as the first lady of South Korea, is the titled held by the hostess of the Presidential Residence of South Korea, presidential residence, usually the wife of the president of South Korea. During the administration of President Park Chung-hee, his daughter, Park Geun-hye, assumed the duties of first lady after her mother, Yuk Young-soo, was shot dead.Carter J. Eckert, Ki-baik Lee, Young Ick Lew, Michael Robinson, and Edward W. Wagner, ''Korea Old and New: A History'' (Seoul: Ilchokak / Korea Institute, Harvard University, 1990), 377. Park Geun-hye later became President herself (the first, and to date only, female president of South Korea), but was never married while in office, so there has yet to be a first gentleman of Korea. The current first lady is Kim Keon-hee, wife of President Yoon Suk-yeol, in office since 10 May 2022. List of first ladies of the Republic of Korea The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Keon-hee
Kim Keon-hee (; born 2 September 1972) is a South Korean businesswoman, who is the current First Lady of South Korea since 10 May 2022 as the wife of the 13th president of South Korea Yoon Suk-yeol. She is the current chief executive officer and president of the art exhibition company, Covana Contents. Early life Kim was born on 2 September 1972 in Yangpyeong, South Korea. She attended Myungil Girls' High School before graduating from Kyonggi University with an art degree. Career In 2009, Kim established Covana Contents, a company that specializes in art exhibitions and has been serving as the chief executive officer and president since then. In 2019, the media reported that she had allegedly not paid taxes. Kim has been investigated for allegedly taking kickbacks for hosting art exhibitions. In 2021, there were reports that Kim had inflated her resume with connections to the New York University Stern School of Business. In a press conference, she later publicly apologized and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national news c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Young-sam
Kim Young-sam (; or ; 20 December 1927 – 22 November 2015) was a Demographics of South Korea, South Korean politician and activist who served as the seventh president of South Korea from 1993 to 1998. From 1961, he spent almost 30 years as one of the leaders of the South Korean opposition, and one of the most powerful rivals to the authoritarian regimes of Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan. Elected as president in 1992, Kim became the first civilian to hold the office in over 30 years. He was inaugurated on 25 February 1993, and served a single five-year term, presiding over a massive anti-corruption campaign, the arrest of his two predecessors, and an internationalization policy called ''Segyehwa''. At the final years of his presidency, Kim had been widely blamed for the collapse of the Seongsu Bridge and the Sampoong Department Store and the downturn and recession of the South Korean economy during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which forced South Korea to accept te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Son Myeong-sun
Son Myung-soon (Hangul:손명순, Hanja:孫命順) (also transliterated as Sohn Myung Soon) (born 29 January 1929) is the widow of South Korean President Kim Young-sam. She was the first lady when Kim Young-sam was in office, from 1993 to 1998.Yonhap news agency, Seoul - March 10, 1997BBC/ref> Biography Son was born in Keishōnan-dō on 29 January 1929 in Chōsen to Sang-ho and Geunyi Kim. She had two sisters who died early and her birth mother died on 1935. Her father later remarried to Gam Deok-soon, and had two more sons and six more daughters. Her father Sang-ho ran the largest rubber factory in Reisan and was called the “Masan chaebol.” Son graduated from Jin Young Daechang Elementary School in Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do and Masan Girls' High School in Changwon. She later attended Ewha Womans University, where she took course in Pharmacy and married Kim Young-sam in 1951. During her third year in Ewha, a new rule was established, which prohibited marriage of e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Son Myung-soon
Son Myung-soon (Hangul:손명순, Hanja:孫命順) (also transliterated as Sohn Myung Soon) (born 29 January 1929) is the widow of South Korean President Kim Young-sam. She was the first lady when Kim Young-sam was in office, from 1993 to 1998.Yonhap news agency, Seoul - March 10, 1997BBC/ref> Biography Son was born in Keishōnan-dō on 29 January 1929 in Chōsen to Sang-ho and Geunyi Kim. She had two sisters who died early and her birth mother died on 1935. Her father later remarried to Gam Deok-soon, and had two more sons and six more daughters. Her father Sang-ho ran the largest rubber factory in Reisan and was called the “Masan chaebol.” Son graduated from Jin Young Daechang Elementary School in Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do and Masan Girls' High School in Changwon. She later attended Ewha Womans University, where she took course in Pharmacy and married Kim Young-sam in 1951. During her third year in Ewha, a new rule was established, which prohibited marriage of e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roh Tae-woo
Roh Tae-woo (; ; 4 December 1932 – 26 October 2021) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the sixth president of South Korea from 1988 to 1993. Roh was a close ally and friend of Chun Doo-hwan, the predecessor leader of the country who ruled as an unelected military dictator from 1980 to 1988, and unofficially since 1979. In 1996, both leaders were sentenced for their roles in orchestrating coups as well as their subsequent human rights abuses such as the Gwangju Massacre, but was pardoned the following year by Kim Young-sam on advice of president-elect Kim Dae-jung. He was a leader of the Democratic Justice Party from 1987 to 1990 and was known for having passed the June 29 Declaration in 1987 as the leader of the party. Roh died on 26 October 2021, at the age of 88. Early life and education Roh was born on 4 December 1932 in Daegu. His ancestry could be traced from Jinan, Shandong. He is the 16th generation descendant of No Sa-sin () who was a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Ok-suk
Kim Ok-suk (Hangul: 김옥숙, Hanja: 金玉淑) (born 8 September 1935) is the widow of South Korean President Roh Tae-woo. She was the first lady when Roh Tae-woo was in office, from 1988 to 1993. Early life Kim was born on September 8, 1935, in Antoku-men in Keishōhoku-dō to Kim Young-han and Hong Moo-kyung. She is the fourth child of a family with three sons and two daughters. Her older brother Kim Pok-tong, served as a soldier in the South Korean Army and later was a politician. Her sister was the wife of former Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy Geum Jin-ho. She attended and graduated from Gyeongbuk Women's High School in 1954. In 1956, she attended the Department of Family Education at Kyungpook National University. On May 31, 1959, she married Roh Tae-woo, then an army officer, at the Daegu Cultural Wedding Hall. As a result of the marriage, she dropped out of the university in her third year. During the 1987 South Korean presidential election, she attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Ok-suk
Kim Ok-suk (Hangul: 김옥숙, Hanja: 金玉淑) (born 8 September 1935) is the widow of South Korean President Roh Tae-woo. She was the first lady when Roh Tae-woo was in office, from 1988 to 1993. Early life Kim was born on September 8, 1935, in Antoku-men in Keishōhoku-dō to Kim Young-han and Hong Moo-kyung. She is the fourth child of a family with three sons and two daughters. Her older brother Kim Pok-tong, served as a soldier in the South Korean Army and later was a politician. Her sister was the wife of former Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy Geum Jin-ho. She attended and graduated from Gyeongbuk Women's High School in 1954. In 1956, she attended the Department of Family Education at Kyungpook National University. On May 31, 1959, she married Roh Tae-woo, then an army officer, at the Daegu Cultural Wedding Hall. As a result of the marriage, she dropped out of the university in her third year. During the 1987 South Korean presidential election, she attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chun Doo-hwan
Chun Doo-hwan (; or ; 18 January 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean Republic of Korea Army, army general and military dictator who ruled as an unelected Political strongman, strongman from 1979 to 1980 before replacing Choi Kyu-hah as president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. Chun usurped power after the 1979 Assassination of Park Chung-hee, assassination of president Park Chung-hee, a military dictator who had ruled since 1962. Chun orchestrated the Coup d'etat of December Twelfth, 12 December 1979 military coup, then cemented his military dictatorship in the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth, 17 May 1980 military coup in which he declared martial law and later set up a Samchung re-education camp, concentration camp for "purificatory education". He established the highly authoritarianism, authoritarian Fifth Republic of Korea on 3 March 1981. After the June Struggle democratization movement of 1987, Chun conceded to allowing the 1987 South Korean presidential elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Soon-ja
Lee Soon-ja (Hangul: 이순자, Hanja: 李順子) (born 24 March 1939) is the widow of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan. She was the first lady when Chun Doo-hwan was in office, from 1980 to 1988. Early life Lee Soon-ja was born on March 24, 1939, in Chōshun, Manchukuo to Lee Gyu-dong and Lee Bong-nyeon. She is the second daughter of a family with three daughters and one son. Her father was from Seongju County in North Gyeongsang Province, and is the descendant of Lee Jo-yeon, a scholar and writer during the Goryeo Dynasty. He was an officer within the Manchukuo Imperial Army. Following the independence of Korea from the Japanese rule in 1945, the family moved back to the Korean Peninsula. Her father was appointed as an officer in the South Korean Army and worked at the Non-Commissioned Officer Academy. After the death of one of her sisters, Lee played the role of the eldest daughter in the family. During this time, she attended the Jinhae Girls' Middle School in Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Lee may refer to: Name Given name * Lee (given name), a given name in English Surname * Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee: ** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname ** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese surname *Lý (Vietnamese surname) or Lí (李), a common Vietnamese surname * Lee (Korean surname) or Rhee or Yi (Hanja , Hangul or ), a common Korean surname * Lee (English surname), a common English surname * List of people with surname Lee **List of people with surname Li ** List of people with the Korean family name Lee Geography United Kingdom * Lee, Devon * Lee, Hampshire * Lee, London * Lee, Mull, a location in Argyll and Bute * Lee, Northumberland, a location * Lee, Shropshire, a location * Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire * Lee District (Metropolis) * The Lee, Buckinghamshire, parish and village name, formally known as Lee * River Lee - alternative name for River Lea United States * Lee, California * Lee, Florida * Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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