Park Jong-sun (박종선) born December 10, 1928, is a conservative

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n politician who ran as an independent candidate in the

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, and was formerly the head of the company Samhyup. Park has called for an industrialized Korea with an economy based on domestic demand, to stop trade with the

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, and for higher taxes for the rich. He also wants to reform education to focus on personal development and revive the usage of Chinese characters. Park Jong-sun had been a candidate in the 1992 parliamentary elections in his home district of Namhae, obtaining 0.88% of the vote.

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