Chung Eui-hwa (

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: 정의화;

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: 鄭義和; born 18 December 1948) is a South Korean doctor and politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2016.

Early life and education

Chung Eui-hwa was born in Changwon-gun, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea on December 18, 1948. He graduated from

Pusan National University Pusan National University (PNU), also called Busan National University, is one of ten Flagship Korean National Universities in South Korea and second highest public universities in South Korea. Located mainly in Busan (or Pusan), the universi ...

medical school.

Political career

Chung became a politician in 1996 when he ran in the

1996 South Korean legislative election Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 12 April 1996.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II'', p420 The result was a victory for the New Korea Party, which won 139 of th ...

for the

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Jung-gu · Dong-gu electoral district and won with 41.6% of the vote. He continuously won the Busan Jung-gu · Dong-gu electoral district until 2012. Chung was pro- Lee Myung-bak during the

2007 South Korean presidential election Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 19 December 2007. The election was won by Lee Myung-bak of the Grand National Party, returning conservatives to the Blue House for the first time in ten years. Lee defeated Grand Unified Democra ...

. He assumed the position of Speaker of the National Assembly on May 30, 2014. Since then, Chung has been an

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and critical of the pro-

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faction of the Liberty Korea Party.

References

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