Hong Moon-jong | |||||||||
Native Name Lang: | ko | ||||||||
Birth Date: | 26 May 1955 | ||||||||
Birth Place: | Yangju, Gyeonggi, South Korea | ||||||||
Citizenship: | South Korean | ||||||||
Office: | President of the New Pro-Park Party | ||||||||
Term Start: | 25 February 2020 | ||||||||
Predecessor: | Position established | ||||||||
Office2: | President of the Our Republican Party | ||||||||
Term Start2: | 24 June 2019 Serving with Cho Won-jin as President of Korean Patriots' Party: 17 June 2019 - 24 June 2019 | ||||||||
Term End2: | 10 February 2020 | ||||||||
Predecessor2: | Cho Won-jin | ||||||||
Office3: | Member of the National Assembly | ||||||||
Constituency3: | Uijeongbu 2nd | ||||||||
Term Start3: | 30 May 2012 | ||||||||
Term End3: | 29 May 2020 | ||||||||
Predecessor3: | Kang Sung-jong | ||||||||
Successor3: | Kim Min-chul | ||||||||
Constituency4: | Uijeongbu | ||||||||
Term Start4: | 25 April 2003 | ||||||||
Term End4: | 13 July 2004 | ||||||||
Predecessor4: | Moon Hee-sang | ||||||||
Successor4: | Moon Hee-sang (1st) Kang Sung-jong (2nd) | ||||||||
Term Start5: | 30 May 1996 | ||||||||
Term End5: | 29 May 2000 | ||||||||
Predecessor5: | Moon Hee-sang | ||||||||
Successor5: | Moon Hee-sang | ||||||||
Party: | Pro-Park New Party | ||||||||
Otherparty: | Democratic Liberal Party (1995) New Korea Party (1995-1997) National Party - New (1997-1998) National Congress for New Politics (1998-2000) Grand National Party (2002-2006) Saenuri Party (2012-2017) Liberty Korea Party (2017-2019) Korean Patriots' Party (2019) Our Republican Party (2019-2020) | ||||||||
Alma Mater: | Harvard University | ||||||||
Spouse: | Lee So-young | ||||||||
Parents: | Hong Woo-jun | ||||||||
Relatives: | See Namyang Hong clan | ||||||||
Occupation: | Politician | ||||||||
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Hong Moon-jong (; born 26 May 1955) is a South Korean politician who served as the Member of the National Assembly for Uijeongbu 2nd constituency.[1] [2] He also served as the Secretary-General of the Saenuri Party.[2] [3] He is the son of the late former politician Hong Woo-jun.
Born at Yangju, Hong studied at Harvard University.[2] He started his political career when he entered to the Democratic Liberal Party (then New Korea Party aka NKP) in 1995.[3] During the general election in 1996,[3] he defeated Moon Hee-sang from the National Congress for New Politics (NCNP). In 1997, he left the NKP and joined the National Party - New (NPN) in order to endorse Lee In-je as the upcoming President. Hong stood as a nonpartisan candidate in 2000[3] despite his loss. He temporarily came back as an MP after the by-election in 2003, till he lost just after a year.
After involving several controversies,[3] Hong officially came back as MP in 2012.[3] He was then re-elected in 2016. As one of the politicians supporting ex-President Park Geun-hye,[2] [4] he endorsed her as President in 2007.[3] He unsuccessfully ran as the parliamentary leader of the Liberty Korea Party (LKP) in 2017.[4]
In 2019, Hong announced to leave the LKP.[5] [6] A minor political party named the Korean Patriots' Party elected Hong as the party president along with incumbent Cho Won-jin,[5] [6] and the party officially changed their name as the Our Republican Party (ORP).
On 10 February 2020, Hong was sacked from the ORP after long-time conflicts with Cho.[7] He then formed the new party named Pro-Park New Party.[8]