Cho Soon ( ko, 조순; 1 February 1928 – 23 June 2022) was a South Korean politician. A member of the

Grand National Party The Liberty Korea Party () was a conservative political party in South Korea that was described variously as right-wing, right-wing populist, or far-right. Until February 2017, it was known as the Saenuri Party (), and before that as the Hanna ...

and later the Democratic People's Party, he served in the

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from 1998 to 2000. Cho died in

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on 23 June 2022 at the age of 94.

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