Chung Jin-suk (politician)

Chung Jin-suk
정진석
Chung in January 2022
Chief of Staff to the President
Assumed office
22 April 2024
PresidentYoon Suk-yeol
Preceded byLee Kwan-seop
Leader of People Power Party
In office
8 September 2022 – 8 March 2023
Preceded byJoo Ho-young (acting)
Succeeded byKim Gi-hyeon
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly
In office
31 August 2021 – 10 November 2022
Serving with Kim Sang-hee (2021-22),
Kim Young-joo (2022)
Preceded byLee Ju-young
Joo Seung-yong
Succeeded byChung Woo-taik
President of the Saenuri Party
Interim
In office
11 May 2016 – 1 June 2016
Preceded byWon Yoo-chul (acting)
Succeeded byKim Hee-ok (acting)
Secretary-General of the National Assembly
In office
1 January 2013 – 28 February 2014
Preceded byYoon Won-joong
Succeeded byPark Heong-joon
Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs
In office
16 July 2010 – 10 June 2011
PresidentLee Myung-bak
Preceded byPark Heong-joon
Succeeded byKim Hyo-jae
Member of the National Assembly
In office
30 May 2016 – 22 April 2024
Preceded byPark Soo-hyun (Gongju)
Lee Wan-koo (Buyeo-Cheongyang)
Succeeded byPark Soo-hyun
ConstituencyGongju-Buyeo-Cheongyang
In office
30 May 2008 – 16 July 2010
ConstituencyProportional
In office
1 May 2005 – 29 May 2008
Preceded byOh Si-deok
Succeeded byShim Dae-pyung
ConstituencyGongju-Yeongi
In office
30 May 2000 – 29 May 2004
Preceded byChung Suk-mo (Gongju)
Kim Goh-sung (Yeongi)
Succeeded byOh Si-deok
ConstituencyGongju-Yeongi
Personal details
Born (1960-09-04) 4 September 1960 (age 63)
Gongju, South Chungcheong
CitizenshipSouth Korean
Political partyPeople Power
Other political
affiliations
ALDE (1999-2005)
PFP (2006-2007)
GNP (2008-2010; 2010-2012)
Saenuri (2012-2013; 2014-2017)
LKP (2017-2020)
UFP (2020)
SpouseLee Mi-ho
ChildrenChung Ga-young
Chung Won-young
Parent(s)Chung Suk-mo (father)
Yoon Seok-nam (mother)
Alma materKorea University
OccupationActivist, journalist, politician
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Chung Jin-suk (Korean정진석, born 4 September 1960) is a South Korean journalist, activist, and politician who briefly served as the interim President of the Saenuri Party (now the People Power Party) from 11 May 2016 to 1 June 2016. He has been the Member of the National Assembly for Gongju-Buyeo-Cheongyang since 2016 and was previously MP for Gongju-Yeongi from 2000 to 2004, and again from 2005 to 2008. He was the Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs in the Lee Myung-bak government from 2010 to 2011.

Chung was born in Gongju and attended Sungdong High School, before going on to Korea University to study political science and diplomacy. He joined the now-defunct Alliance of Liberal Democrats (ALDE) in 1999, and before entering parliament worked as the party spokesperson. Chung was elected to the National Assembly at the 2000 election, winning the Gongju-Yeongi constituency in South Chungcheong. He moved to the People First Party (PFP) in 2006, where he served as its parliamentary leader and a vice president. He then subsequently joined the Grand National Party (GNP).

After the GNP's victory in the 2008 election, he was appointed President of the Intelligence Committee; he was also made Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs. In the 2012 election, he moved to Seoul Central but lost to Chyung Ho-joon, a son of Chyung Dai-chul. After the electoral lost, he was made Chief Secretary to the Speaker of the National Assembly, and then Secretary-General of the National Assembly.

Following Saenuri's defeat in the 2016 election, Chung stood against Na Kyung-won in the ensuring parliamentary leadership election. Although the election was widely expected as neck and neck, Chung defeated Na by obtaining additional supports from 23 MPs. He was also made interim party president; the position was vacant since the resignation of Kim Moo-sung. Chung, however, stepped down amid the impeachment of the then President Park Geun-hye in December 2016. After his re-election as an MP in the 2020 election, he was a potential Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly by the United Future Party, but he refused the bid. He accepted the bid in 2021 and was elected on 31 August 2021.


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