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Park Choong-hun (Korean: 손흥민; 19 January 1919 – March 16, 2001) was a retired Republic of Korea Air Force Major General who served as Vice Minister of Commerce and Industry, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Acting Prime Minister, and Acting President of the Republic of Korea .
He was born in Jeju-gun, Jeollanam-do . In 1949, he was commissioned as an officer in the Republic of Korea Air Force Jeong Hun, and in 1961 he was promoted to the rank of Major General of the Republic of Korea Air Force . After that, in May 1980 , he served as Acting Prime Minister and in August of the same year , Acting President , which was the first precedent in Korea to serve as Acting President as an Acting Prime Minister . He served as acting president from August 16, 1980 to September 1, 1980 , but General Chun Doo-hwan, who seized power through a coup, assumed power.
Career
[edit]After graduating from Gyeongseong No. 1 High School , Doshisha Higher Commercial School in Kyoto , Japan , and Korea National Defense University, he briefly served in the Air Force . He served as Director of Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Vice Minister of Commerce and Industry , Minister of Commerce and Industry in 1963 , and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Planning Board in 1967 .
After that, he held positions such as the chairman of the Korea International Trade Association, the chairman of the Daewoo Institute, and the chairman of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. In May 1980, when Prime Minister Shin Hyeon - hwak resigned due to the outbreak of the Gwangju Democratization Movement , he was appointed as the acting prime minister .
On April 23, 1981, he was elected as an advisory member of the National Advisory Council .
Education
[edit]Non-degree completion
[edit]- Jeju National University Graduate School of International Policy Course Completion (1966)
Honorary Doctorate
[edit]- 21st-century South Korean people
- 20th-century South Korean people
- Doshisha University alumni
- South Korean Protestants
- Acting presidents of South Korea
- Third Republic of Korea
- Deputy Prime Ministers of South Korea
- Prime Ministers of South Korea
- South Korean military personnel of the Korean War
- 2001 deaths
- 1919 births