| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable | ||||||||
| Chung Ui-hwa | |||||||||
| Constituency1: | Busan Jung-gu Dong-gu | ||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Pusan National University | ||||||||
| Constituency4: | Busan Jung-gu Dong-gu | ||||||||
| Constituency3: | Busan Jung-gu Dong-gu | ||||||||
| Constituency2: | Busan Jung-gu Dong-gu | ||||||||
| Term End4: | 29 May 2000 | ||||||||
| Term Start4: | 30 May 1996 | ||||||||
| Term End3: | 29 May 2004 | ||||||||
| Term Start3: | 30 May 2000 | ||||||||
| Term End2: | 29 May 2008 | ||||||||
| Term Start2: | 30 May 2004 | ||||||||
| Term End1: | 29 May 2012 | ||||||||
| Term Start1: | 30 May 2008 | ||||||||
| Successor: | Chung Sye-kyun | ||||||||
| Predecessor: | Kang Chang-hee | ||||||||
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| Otherparty: | Saenuri Party Grand National Party New Korea Party | ||||||||
| Party: | People Power Party | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Jinhae-eup, Changwon-gun, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea | ||||||||
| Birth Date: | 18 December 1948 | ||||||||
| Termend: | 29 May 2016 | ||||||||
| Termstart: | 30 May 2014 | ||||||||
| Office: | Speaker of the National Assembly | ||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | ko | ||||||||
| Office1: | Member of the National Assembly | ||||||||
Chung Ui-hwa (; born 18 December 1948) is a South Korean doctor and politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2016.
Chung Eui-hwa was born in Changwon-gun, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea on December 18, 1948. He graduated from Pusan National University medical school.
Chung became a politician in 1996 when he ran in the 1996 South Korean legislative election for the Busan Jung-gu · Dong-gu electoral district and won with 41.6% of the vote. He continuously won the Busan Jung-gu · Dong-gu electoral district until 2012.[1]
Chung was pro-Lee Myung-bak during the 2007 South Korean presidential election.[2]
He assumed the position of Speaker of the National Assembly on May 30, 2014.[3] Since then, Chung has been an Independent and critical of the pro-Park Geun-hye faction of the Liberty Korea Party.[4]