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Park Heong-joon
Park Heong-joon (Korean: 박형준; born 19 January 1960) is a South Korean journalist, educator, and politician who has served as the mayor of Busan since 2021. A member of the People Power Party, he was a professor of the Sociology Department and Graduate School of International Studies at Dong-A University from 1991 to 2021.
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 by 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 President Lee Myung-bak.
He was elected as Mayor of Busan in the 2021 by-election, a day before that was provoked following the resignation of Oh Keo-don due to allegations of sexual harassment. He successfully defeated the Democratic candidate Kim Young-choon by a large margin.
Prior to his political career, Park worked as a journalist of JoongAng Ilbo and Monthly Mal. Since the 2010s, he has been a commentator in various programmes such as Battle of Tongues, Powerful Opponents, Let's Be Politicians and so on.
Park Heong-joon was born in Choryang-dong, East District, Busan, in 1960. 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 (고대문화), along with 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 injured his right eye and he was soon found collapsed on the road. Due to this, his legs were burnt, and his right eye was also injured which made him unable to see properly even after wearing spectacles; as a result 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 such as Marxism.[unreliable source?] Along with 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.[unreliable source?]
In the early 1990s, Park was a founding member of the Popular Party; others are Kim Moon-soo, Cha Myong-jin and Lee Jae-oh; all of them are now notable conservative figures. The party, however, won no seats in the 1992 election and was deregistered.
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Park Heong-joon
Park Heong-joon (Korean: 박형준; born 19 January 1960) is a South Korean journalist, educator, and politician who has served as the mayor of Busan since 2021. A member of the People Power Party, he was a professor of the Sociology Department and Graduate School of International Studies at Dong-A University from 1991 to 2021.
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 by 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 President Lee Myung-bak.
He was elected as Mayor of Busan in the 2021 by-election, a day before that was provoked following the resignation of Oh Keo-don due to allegations of sexual harassment. He successfully defeated the Democratic candidate Kim Young-choon by a large margin.
Prior to his political career, Park worked as a journalist of JoongAng Ilbo and Monthly Mal. Since the 2010s, he has been a commentator in various programmes such as Battle of Tongues, Powerful Opponents, Let's Be Politicians and so on.
Park Heong-joon was born in Choryang-dong, East District, Busan, in 1960. 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 (고대문화), along with 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 injured his right eye and he was soon found collapsed on the road. Due to this, his legs were burnt, and his right eye was also injured which made him unable to see properly even after wearing spectacles; as a result 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 such as Marxism.[unreliable source?] Along with 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.[unreliable source?]
In the early 1990s, Park was a founding member of the Popular Party; others are Kim Moon-soo, Cha Myong-jin and Lee Jae-oh; all of them are now notable conservative figures. The party, however, won no seats in the 1992 election and was deregistered.