Who is Park Heong-joon?
Park Heong-joon is a South Korean journalist, educator and politician. He was a former professor of the Sociology Department and Graduate School of International Studies at Dong-a University from 1 September 1991 to 12 March 2021.
He has been the Mayor of Busan since 8 April 2021. He was elected to the position in the by-election a day before that was provoked following the resignation of Oh Keo-don due to the allegations of s*xual harassment. He successfully defeated the Democratic candidate Kim Young-choon with a large margin.
Park represented the Grand National Party (GNP) in the National Assembly as the Member for Suyeong from 2004 until in 2008, when he was defeated to the independent candidate Yoo Jae-jung, who later returned to the GNP.
Though he lost again to Yoo in 2012, he served as the Secretary-General of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2016. He also served as the Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs from 2009 to 2010 under the President Lee Myung-bak.
Prior to his political career, Park worked as a journalist of JoongAng Ilbo and Monthly Mal. Since 2010s, he has been a commentator in various programmes i.e. Battle of Tongues, Powerful Opponents, Let’s Be Politicians and so on.
Park Heong-joon Age
Park Heong-joon was born in Choryang-dong, East District, Busan, in 1960. He celebrated his 63rd birthday in 2023.
His father was a doctor, whom he described as “an iron hand in a velvet glove”. Little is known of his early family life, as he prefers to not talk about it.
Park was educated at Daeil High School and Korea University. While studying sociology at Korea University in 1980, he worked as an editor of the school magazine titled KU Culture as well as joining anti-government protests.
During a protest on 13 May, he ran away from the venue after he found the riot police firing tear gas, which later hit the wall of Plaza Hotel.One of the shrapnels soon attacked his right eye and he was soon collapsed in the road.
Not only his legs were burnt, his right eye was also injured till being unable to see properly regardless of wearing spectacles, in which he was later exempted from the national service. He then continued postgraduate studies and following the graduation, he was hired at JoongAng Ilbo in 1983 and worked for 2 years.
During the 1980s, Park was interested with left-wing ideologies i.e. Marxism. Not only studying those ideologies, he worked at left-leaning magazines, for example, Creation and Criticism and Reality and Science. In June 1991, he was briefly an editor of Monthly Mal, along with Jung Tae-in, who later joined the Justice Party and became a progressive economist.
Park Heong-joon Wife And Children
Park Heong-joon married Cho Hyun, a businesswoman who has been operating Cho Hyun Gallery (World Gallery before 2008) since 1990.Her mother died in 2009.
Both has a son and a daughter. On 17 March 2021, he revealed through his Facebook that Cho Hyun is his second wife.
JoongAng Ilbo reported 2 days later that Cho has already been having a daughter and a son with her ex-husband, and then remarried Park in December 1999.
Park Heong-joon Net Worth
As of now, there is a lack of official information or data regarding the net worth of Park Heong-joon.
Despite his notable career and contributions to various fields, including journalism and education, specific details about his financial assets and net worth remain undisclosed.
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