Lee Myung-bak government

Cabinet of Lee Myung-bak
Cabinet of South Korea
Date formed	25 February 2008
Date dissolved	24 February 2013
People and organisations
Head of state	Lee Myung-bak
Head of government	Lee Myung-bak
Member party	Saenuri Party
History
Election(s)	2007 South Korean presidential election 2008 South Korean legislative election
Predecessor	Cabinet of Roh Moo-hyun
Successor	Cabinet of Park Geun-hye

The Lee Myung-bak government (Korean: 이명박 정부; Hanja: 李明博政府, RR: I Myeong-bak Jeongbu) was the fifth government of the Sixth Republic of South Korea. It took office on 25 February 2008 after Lee Myung-bak's victory in the 2007 presidential elections. Most of the new cabinet was approved by the National Assembly on 29 February. Led by President Lee Myung-bak, it was supported principally by the conservative Saenuri Party, previously known as the Grand National Party. It was also known as Silyong Jeongbu (Korean: 실용정부; Hanja: 實用政府), the "pragmatic government", a name deriving from Lee's campaign slogan.

A provisional committee established shortly before the government's inauguration presented proposals with the intention of creating a more compact government.^[1] The main objective of the administration was cited in 2011 as "the foundation of micro-government and macro-market ideas to revive the economy".^[2] Politically, the administration was marked by an ongoing internal dispute between the factions of Lee and Park Geun-hye within the ruling party after an intense contest between the two in the primaries preceding the 2007 elections.^[3] The government presided over issues such as the South Korea foot-and-mouth outbreak, the ratification of the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement, the 2011 South Korean university tuition crisis and the Jeju-do Naval Base.

The Lee Myung-bak government ended on 25 February 2013 with the inauguration of Park Geun-hye as president.