Jang Deog-cheon (; born 28 November 1965) is a South Korean lawyer and politician serving as Mayor of Bucheon City in

Gyeonggi Province Gyeonggi-do (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea. Its name, ''Gyeonggi'', means "京 (the capital) and 畿 (the surrounding area)". Thus, ''Gyeonggi-do'' can be translated as "Seoul and the surrounding areas of Seoul". Seoul, the na ...

from 2018.

Lawyer

Jang was previously a legal advisor to the city from 2011 to 2015, Gyeonggi Province from 2017 to 2018 and Bucheon branch of

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. He was also a lawyer at Bucheon office of Korea Legal Aid Corporation from 2016 to 2018 and a member of Incheon Regional National Labor Relations Commission from 2014 to 2015. In 2015 Jang filed the first case against the

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to the

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for later-impeached president

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's state-issued history textbook on behalf of his 10-years-old son and his spouse for violating their right to choose textbooks and breaking political impartiality of education. In May 2017 President

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scrapped that policy on his third day in office. In 2018 the Court dismissed the case as the policy does not exist anymore.

Political career

In the 2016 general election, Jang applied to be party's candidate for now-Bucheon B constituency but lost to Sul Hoon. He worked at

's second presidential campaign in 2017 as his special advisor on law and human rights. From 2018 he has served as a legal advisor to

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Foundation. In the 2018 local election, Jang earned party's nomination defeating 8 candidates who mostly represented Bucheon at City council or Gyeonggi assembly and later joined his campaign. In March 2020, Jang criticised Gyeonggi Provincial Governor

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's policy to give every citizens in the Province 100,000 KRW (roughly US$90) as part of Province's own

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relief fund that the budget for this policy should be better off with giving 4,000,000KRW to small business owners in Province who are severely affected by the pandemic. He later rescinded statements after the Governor announced Bucheon's citizens may not receive this fund.

Education

Jang holds a bachelor's degree in politics from

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Electoral history

{, class="wikitable" !Election !Year !Position !Party Affiliation !Votes !Percentage of votes !Results , - , 7th local elections , 2018 , Mayor of Bucheon City ,

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, 258,028 , 66.1% , Won

References

Living people Mayors of places in South Korea Democratic Party of Korea politicians 20th-century South Korean lawyers 1965 births Seoul National University alumni People from Bucheon Politicians from Gyeonggi Province People from Namwon Politicians from North Jeolla Province 21st-century South Korean lawyers