Jun Hee-kyung (Korean: 전희경, born 9 October 1975) is a South Korean conservative politician who is a member of the National Assembly from right-wing Liberty Korea Party (LKP) since 2016. Before joining the politics, she was the secretary-general of Centre for Free Economics.

Biography

Jun was born in Seongbuk District, Seoul but grown up and educated in Uijeongbu after her father's business failure. According to her, she was an introvert and liked to think about something during this time. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Public Administration from Ewha Womans University.

She served as the policy director of Citizens United for Better Society from 2006 to 2012, policy team leader of Korea Economic Research Institute from 2012 to 2014, and the secretary-general of Centre for Free Economics (then Centre for Free Enterprise) from 2014 to 2016. She also represented Saenuri Party (then Liberty Korea Party) during the history textbook controversies in 2015.

Prior to 2016 election, Jun was brought into the Saenuri Party. She ran 9th in the Saenuri list and elected for the National Assembly. During the presidential election in 2017, she was appointed as the spokesperson of the LKP's presidential candidate, Hong Jun-pyo.

She is socially conservative, who opposes same-sex marriage and advocates harsher immigration policy.

Controversies

In 2016, she faced a criticism regarding with her thesis plagiarism in Ewha University. It was reported that about 79% of her thesis was plagiarised from the others. On 23 March 2017, she gave her degree up.

Jun received another protests after her controversial remarks towards Im Jong-seok.

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External links

• Chun Hui-kyung on Facebook
• Chun Hui-kyung on YouTube

Seo Joong-Seok (Korean: 서중석; born August 25, 1948) is a South Korean historian.

Some of his publications have been described as "essential". He has been described in South Korea as having the first PhD in the field of modern Korean history ('한국 현대사 박사 제1호').

Biography

Seo was born on August 25, 1948, in Bongdong-ri, Hwangha-myeon, Iksan-gun, North Jeolla Province, South Korea. His bon-gwan is the Daegu Seo clan. He was born the seventh of eight siblings. Three of his siblings died in childhood. Among his surviving siblings was one brother and three sisters. His father was expelled from school in the aftermath of the Daegu Normal School Reading Club Scandal (대구사범학교 독서회사건). After which, he worked as a farmer. Seo's mother also worked as a farmer. Despite their humble means, they were eventually able to send Seo and three of his siblings to college.

In 1955, he enrolled in the Hwanghwa Elementary School. In 1961, he enrolled in the Kanggyeong Middle School. In 1964, he moved in with his older brother in Seoul and attended Seoul High School.

In 1967, he was accepted into the College of Arts and Sciences at Seoul National University, where he studied history. While there, he felt that his grade schools had taught history poorly. He was particularly inspired by the writings of Edmund Wilson and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Before graduating, he served his mandatory military service, and was discharged in May 1973. By September, he enrolled in school again.

In 1974, while in his fourth year in the History Department, Seo was imprisoned for his participation in the National Federation of Democratic Youth and Students Incident, in which he protested against the dictatorial Fourth Republic of Korea.

Seo received his PhD in 1990. His dissertation, entitled Research on Modern and Contemporary Nationalist Movements (《한국근현대민족운동연구》), is considered to be the first in South Korea that covered modern Korean history.

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