Kwon Young-ghil

I admire careers that follow a single moral thread, and Kwon Young-ghil's does. Journalist, trade unionist, human rights defender, then politician and founding figure of a labour party, all of it points the same direction, toward people without much power. Born in 1941 and educated at Seoul National University, he could have chosen comfort and didn't. What strikes me most is the autobiographer label, because it suggests a man who feels accountable to history and wants the record told straight. There's nothing flashy here, and that's exactly why I find his life worth pausing over and respecting.

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Name (English)

Kwon Young-ghil

Name (Japanese)

権永吉

Reading

くぉん よんぎる

Born

November 5, 1941 (age 85)

Origin

Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

journalist / politician / autobiographer / trade unionist / human rights defender

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

High school

Kyungnam High School

University

Seoul National University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwon%20Young-ghil
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%A9%E6%B0%B8%E5%90%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q482901

Tags

• Yamaguchi Prefecture
• journalist
• politician
• autobiographer

Last updated

November 5, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.