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Choi Jae-hyung

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The Honourable
Choi Jae-hyung
MP
์ตœ์žฌํ˜•
Member of the National Assembly
In office
10 March 2022ย โ€“ 29 May 2024
Preceded byLee Nak-yon
Succeeded byKwak Sang-eon
ConstituencySeoul Jongno
Chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection
In office
2 January 2018ย โ€“ 28 June 2021
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Preceded byHwang Chan-hyun
Succeeded byKang Mina (acting)
Personal details
Born (1956-09-02) 2 September 1956 (ageย 70)
Jinhae, South Korea
PartyPeople Power
SpouseLee So-yeon
ChildrenChoi Ji-won
Choi Ye-won
Choi Young-jin (adopted)
Choi Jin-ho (adopted)
Parent(s)Choi Young-sup (father; d. 2021)
Chung Ohk-kyung (mother; d. 2009)
RelativesChoi Byung-kyu (grandfather)
EducationSeoul National University
OccupationPolitician, judge
Signature
Choi Jae-hyung
Hangul
์ตœ์žฌํ˜•
Hanja
ๅด”ๅœจไบจ
RRChoe Jaehyeong
MRCh'oe Chaehyลng

Choi Jae-hyung (Korean:ย ์ตœ์žฌํ˜•, born 2 September 1956) is a South Korean politician and retired judge who served as the Chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) from 2018 to 2021. He is a member of the National Assembly.

Early life and education

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Choi Jae-hyung was born in Jinhae (now Jinhae District, Changwon), South Gyeongsang on 2 September 1956.[1][2][3] He is the second of the four sons of Choi Young-sup (1928โ€“2021),[1][2] is a former reserved captain from Pyeonggang, Gangwon (now under the de facto rule of North Korea).[3][4][5] He led the victory of South Korea during the Battle of Korea Strait.[1][6] He also participated in the Battle of Inchon and was awarded the Order of Military Merit for 3 times.[3] He married Chung Ohk-kyung, who died in 2009 after an 11-year battle with Parkinson's disease.[7] He died on 8 July 2021, a day after his son launched a bid to join politics.[8] He is the son of Choi Byung-kyu (1909โ€“2008), a former independent activist who was also from Pyeonggang.[3]

Choi Jae-hyung has an elder brother, Choi Jae-shin, who was the former President of KorDev.[3][6] He also has 2 younger brothers โ€” Choi Jae-min (doctor at a children's hospital) and Choi Jae-wan (professor at Gwangju University.[3][6]

Choi spent his childhood with his father in Waryong-dong, Central District, Seoul, but then moved to Hoehyeon-dong, and then Donggyo-dong.[1] He studied at Hanyoung Secondary School in Seongbuk (now moved to Gangdong), which took 4 hours to go from and return to his home.[1] He then attended Kyunggi High School,[2][3][5][6] where he met a friend named Kang Myung-hoon, who suffered from poliomyelitis during that time.[1][9] Every day, Choi carried Kang on his back to go to school, which was continued for 2 years.[1][9] This story became a trend when both were qualified for the bar in 1981.[1][9] Kang later became a lawyer.[1][9]

He studied law at Seoul National University, and completed national service as a lieutenant from 1983 to 1986.[1][2][3]

Career

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After being qualified for the bar in 1981, Choi started his career as a judge at Seoul Central District Court in 1986.[2] He then continued to work at Daejeon District Court, Seoul Family Court, Seoul High Court and so on.[10][11]

Chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI)

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Following the election of the new President Moon Jae-in, Choi was nominated Chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) on 7 December 2017, 6 days after the resignation of Hwang Chan-hyun.[10][12][13][14][11] On 29 December, 231 out of 246 MPs voted in favour of his appointment.[15]

On 28 June 2021, Choi officially resigned as the Chairman of the BAI.[16]

Political career

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On 7 July 2021, after 9 days he resigned from the BAI, Choi made an announcement to join politics.[17][18] It was also reported that the People Power Party (PPP) intends to bring him into the party to pave a way for running at the 2022 presidential election.[17][18]

On 15 July, Choi officially joined the PPP.[19][20]

Personal life

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Choi is married to Lee So-yeon; the couple has 2 daughters and 2 adopted sons.[1][2][9]

He is a Protestant and a presbyter at Shinchon Church, where both of his parents used to be a part of.[9]

Election results

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YearElectionsConstituencyPolitical partyVotes (%)Results
2022March 2022 By-ElectionJongno (Seoul)PPP49,637 (52.09%)Won
202422nd National Assembly General ElectionJongno (Seoul)PPP38,752 (44.13%)Defeated

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "[Who Isย ?] ์ตœ์žฌํ˜• ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์›์žฅ". 18 January 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [๋ฅ˜๋™ํ•™์˜ ์„ธ์ƒ์ฝ๊ธฐ] ์ตœ์žฌํ˜• ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์›์žฅ์˜ ์ฒœ๊ธฐ์™€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์‚ฌ. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  4. โ†‘ '๋Œ€์„ ํ›„๋ณด ๊ฑฐ๋ก ' ์ตœ์žฌํ˜• ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์›์žฅ ๊ฐ•์› ์ธ์—ฐ ๋ˆˆ๊ธธ. ๊ฐ•์›๋„๋ฏผ์ผ๋ณด. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
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  6. 1 2 3 4 "์šฐ๋ฆฐ ๋ถํ•ต ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์— ์ด๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ผดโ€ฆ ๅŒ— ๋ˆˆ์น˜๋งŒ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์•ˆํƒ€๊นŒ์›Œ". 11 November 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
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  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ์ตœ์žฌํ˜• ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์›์žฅ ํ•™์ฐฝ์‹œ์ ˆ ๊ฐ๋™์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ..."์‹ ์•™์œผ๋กœ ์Šนํ™”ํ•œ ์šฐ์ • 10๋…„"---๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ๅธ่ฉฆ(์‹œ) ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ช…ํ›ˆ-์ตœ์žฌํ˜• ๊ตฐ "์ง™์€ ์‚ฌ๊ท". 16 October 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
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  15. โ†‘ ์ตœ์žฌํ˜• ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์›์žฅ, ์•ˆ์ฒ ์ƒยท๋ฏผ์œ ์ˆ™ ๋Œ€๋ฒ•๊ด€ ์ธ์ค€์•ˆ ํ†ต๊ณผ. 29 December 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  16. โ†‘ "้‡Ž '๋‹คํฌํ˜ธ์Šค' ์ตœ์žฌํ˜• ์‚ฌํ‡ดโ€ฆ ๋“ฑํŒ ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ธ์ œ?". 28 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  17. 1 2 ์ตœ์žฌํ˜• "์ •์น˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค"โ€ฆ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์›์žฅ ์‚ฌํ‡ด 9์ผ๋งŒ์— ๊ณต์‹ํ™”. 7 July 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  18. 1 2 ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์›์žฅ ์‚ฌํ‡ด 9์ผ ๋งŒ์—โ€ฆ์ตœ์žฌํ˜• "์ •์น˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค". 7 July 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
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  20. โ†‘ "[2๋ณด] ์ตœ์žฌํ˜•, ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์˜ํž˜ ์ „๊ฒฉ ์ž…๋‹นโ€ฆ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์˜ค์ „ ์ž…๋‹น์‹". 15 July 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
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