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Oh Young-hun

呉怜勲　/　お・よんふん

Politician from South Korea

December 14, 1968 (age 57)　・　Namjeju, Jeju Province, South Korea

Jeju Province
politician

My Take

What interests me about Oh Young-hun is the choice he made. Trading a seat in the National Assembly for a run at the governorship of his home Jeju Province says a lot about where his loyalties lie. Jeju is no ordinary region; it is a self-governing island with its own scarred history and fierce sense of identity, and entrusting its leadership to a son of the island carries real poignancy. I stay agnostic on partisan judgments, but I hold a quiet regard for people who pour their careers back into the soil that raised them, and his arc reads that way to me.

Overview

Oh Young-hun (Korean: 오영훈; born 31 January 1969) is a South Korean politician serving as 39th Governor of Jeju Province since 1 July 2022. He previously served as member of the National Assembly from 2016 to 2022. Oh's resignation as member of the National Assembly was accepted on April 29, 2022, due to his candidacy for the governor of Jeju Province in the 2022 local election.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Oh Young-hun
Name (Japanese): 呉怜勲
Reading: お・よんふん
Born: December 14, 1968 (age 57)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Sagittarius / Monkey
Origin: Namjeju, Jeju Province, South Korea
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: politician

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Seogwipo High School
University: Jeju National University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%89%E6%80%9C%E5%8B%B2

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