Yang Seung-jo

Yang Seung-jo
Yang Seung-jo
梁承晁
Governor of South Chungcheong Province
	In office ; 1 July 2018 ? 30 June 2022
Preceded by	Ahn Hee-jung
Succeeded by	Kim Tae-heum
Member of the National Assembly
	In office ; 30 May 2004 ? 14 May 2018
Preceded by	Jeon Yong-hak
Succeeded by	Yun Il-gyu
Constituency	Cheonan A (2004?2016) ; Cheonan C (2016?2018)
Personal details
Born	21 March 1959 (age 65) ; Cheonan , South Korea
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Sungkyunkwan University ; Dankook University
Website	withyang .co .kr
Korean name
Hangul	梁承晁
Hanja	梁承晁
Revised Romanization	Yang Seungjo
McCune?Reischauer	Ryang S?ngjo

Yang Seung-jo ( Korean : 梁承晁 ; Hanja : 梁承晁 ; born 21 March 1959) is a South Korean lawyer and politician. He has served as the governor of South Chungcheong Province since 2018.

Early life [ edit ]

Yang Seung-jo was born in Cheonan , South Chungcheong Province to a Confucian scholar, Yang Tae-seok and his mother, Lee Jong-ki.

He passed the 37th judicial examination in 1995, completed 27 training courses and worked as a lawyer.

Political career [ edit ]

In 2004, Yang Seung-jo ran for a Member of the National Assembly in Cheonan and he won the election . He served as the chief of staff for Chairman of the Democratic Party Sohn Hak-kyu and served as the head of the election campaign committee for Sohn Hak-kyu during the 2012 Democratic Party presidential primary. And he became a member of the Supreme council of the Democratic Party in May 2013. ^[1]

Yang was elected governor of South Chungcheong Province in the 2018 local elections . ^[2]

References [ edit ]

^ 梁承晁, 司法考試 6錢7期…唯一한 '忠南 3線' 머니투데이(2013.05.04)
^ "[6·13 選擧] 4選議員徐忠淸代表政治人負傷한 梁承晁忠南知事當選人" . 聯合뉴스 (Yonhap) (in Korean). 14 June 2018 . Retrieved 26 July 2018 .

External links [ edit ]

Official website

[1] 梁承晁, 司法考試 6錢7期…唯一한 '忠南 3線' 머니투데이(2013.05.04)

[2] "[6·13 選擧] 4選議員徐忠淸代表政治人負傷한 梁承晁忠南知事當選人" . 聯合뉴스 (Yonhap) (in Korean). 14 June 2018 . Retrieved 26 July 2018 .

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