Kwon Young-guk

What grips me about Kwon Young-guk is the sheer reach of his trajectory. He moved from a technical high school in Pohang to engineering, then to law, and finally became the Democratic Labor Party's presidential nominee in 2025, a path that almost no one walks. To me that signals someone who kept choosing harder, more principled roads when easier ones were available. Born on Liberation Day in 1963, he feels woven into Korea's modern struggles. I respect figures who trade comfortable advancement for the cause of workers and the underdog, and his story reads like exactly that kind of stubborn integrity.

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Name (English)

Kwon Young-guk

Name (Japanese)

權英國

Reading

くぉん・よんぐく

Born

August 15, 1963 (age 63)

Occupation

engineer / lawyer / politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

High school

Pohang Jecheol Technical High School

University

Seoul National University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwon%20Yeong-guk
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%A9%E8%8B%B1%E5%9B%BD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134436727

Tags

• engineer
• lawyer
• politician

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.