Wu Kuang-hsun | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLY |
Order: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
Constituency: | Kaohsiung County |
Term Start: | 1 February 2005 |
Term End: | 31 January 2008 |
Constituency1: | Kaohsiung County |
Term Start1: | 1 February 1999 |
Term End1: | 31 January 2002 |
Birth Date: | 17 June 1950 |
Birth Place: | Kaohsiung County, Taiwan |
Party: | Kuomintang |
Nationality: | Taiwanese |
Alma Mater: | Yung Ta Institute of Technology and Commerce I-Shou University |
Occupation: | politician |
Wu Kuang-hsun (; born 17 June 1950) is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Kuomintang, he represented Kaohsiung County in the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2002 and again from 2005 to 2008.
Wu earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Yung Ta Institute of Technology and Commerce and later earned a master's degree in business from I-Shou University.[1] [2]
Wu was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1998, and served until 2002.[1] He ran for the Kaohsiung County magistracy in 2001 as the Kuomintang's formal candidate,[3] having run against fellow KMT member Huang Pa-yeh and People First Party candidate Chung Shao-ho.[4] [5] Wu won a second legislative term in 2004, and lost reelection in 2008 to Chen Chi-yu.[6] In 2011, the Taiwan High Court found Wu guilty of buying votes during the 2004 election cycle, and sentenced him to two years and ten months imprisonment.[7] In June 2016, the Taiwan High Court ruled against Wu on charges of stock manipulation dating back to 2008. In the second case, Wu was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment.[8]