Yoo Chang-soon | |||||||||
Native Name: | 유창순 | ||||||||
Office: | 13th Prime Minister of South Korea | ||||||||
Term Start: | 23 January 1982 | ||||||||
Term End: | 24 June 1982 | ||||||||
President: | Chun Doo-hwan | ||||||||
Predecessor: | Nam Duck-woo | ||||||||
Successor: | Kim Sang-hyup | ||||||||
Birth Date: | 6 August 1918 | ||||||||
Birth Place: | Anshū, Heian'nan-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan | ||||||||
Death Place: | Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||
Occupation: | Politician | ||||||||
Nationality: | South Korean | ||||||||
Alma Mater: | Hastings College | ||||||||
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Yoo Chang-soon (6 August 1918 – 2 June 2010) was the Prime Minister of South Korea from 4 January 1982 to 24 June 1982.[1] Yoo was born in Anju, South Pyongan, a city located in present-day North Korea, and attended the Pyongyang Commercial School (평양상업학교). He went on to tertiary education at Hastings College in Nebraska, graduating in 1950. The following year, he entered the service of the South Korean government, working at the Bank of Korea's Tokyo branch. He was governor of the Bank of Korea from 1961 to 1962.