Ji Sang-wook | |
Native Name Lang: | ko |
Office1: | President of the New Conservative Party |
Term Start1: | 5 January 2020 |
Term End1: | 17 February 2020 |
Alongside1: | Ha Tae-keung Oh Shin-hwan Yoo Ui-dong Chung Woon-chun |
Predecessor1: | Position established |
Successor1: | Position abolished |
Office2: | Member of the National Assembly |
Constituency2: | Seoul Jung–Seongdong B |
Term Start2: | 30 May 2016 |
Predecessor2: | New constituency |
Birth Date: | 16 May 1965 |
Birth Place: | Seoul, South Korea |
Alma Mater: | Yonsei University Stanford University University of Tokyo |
Party: | People Power |
Otherparty: | New Conservative Party (2020) |
Hangul: | 지상욱 |
Hanja: | 池尙昱 |
Rr: | Ji Sanguk |
Mr: | Chi Sanguk |
Ji Sang-wook (; born 16 May 1965) is a South Korean academic and politician in the conservative Bareun Party. He is currently a member of the National Assembly for Jung District and Seongdong District, Seoul,[1] and was previously head of the party's district organization in Jung-gu.[2]
Before joining the Saenuri Party, Ji was formerly a spokesman for the Liberty Forward Party, and ran as that party's candidate for Mayor of Seoul in 2010.[3] He was nominated again for the post in 2011 but withdrew before the election took place.[4]
Prior to his entry into politics, Ji was a professor at Yonsei University's Graduate School of International Studies. He studied civil engineering as an undergraduate at Yonsei before earning a masters at Stanford University and a doctorate from the University of Tokyo.[5] [6] He met LFP chairman Lee Hoi-chang in the United States after Lee's defeat in the 2002 presidential election, and subsequently served as a close aide to him.
Ji is married to the actress Shim Eun-ha, who has supported him in elections.