Park Heong-joon | |
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박형준 | |
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| Mayor of Busan | |
| Assumed office 8 April 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Oh Keo-don Byeon Sung-wan (acting) |
| Secretary-General of the National Assembly | |
| In office 1 September 2014 – 20 June 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Chung Jin-suk |
| Succeeded by | Woo Yoon-keun |
| Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs | |
| In office 1 September 2009 – 16 July 2010 | |
| President | Lee Myung-bak |
| Preceded by | Maeng Hyung-kyu |
| Succeeded by | Chung Jin-suk |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 30 May 2004 – 29 May 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Yoo Heung-soo |
| Succeeded by | Yoo Jae-jung |
| Constituency | Suyeong |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 January 1960 Choryang-dong, East District, Busan, South Korea[1] |
| Political party | People Power |
| Other political affiliations | Popular (1990–1992) DLP (1994–1995) NKP (1995–1997) GNP (1997–2012) Saenuri (2012) Independent (2012–2020; 2020) UFP (2020) |
| Spouse | Cho Hyun |
| Children | 4 (including 2 with Cho) |
| Alma mater | Korea University |
| Occupation | Educator, journalist, politician |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 박형준 |
| Hanja | 朴亨埈 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Hyeongjun |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Hyŏngjun |
Park Heong-joon (Korean: 박형준; Hanja: 朴亨埈; born 19 January 1960) is a South Korean journalist, educator and politician. He was a former professor of the Sociology Department and Graduate School of International Studies at Dong-a University from 1 September 1991 to 12 March 2021.
He has been the Mayor of Busan since 8 April 2021. He was elected to the position in the by-election a day before that was provoked following the resignation of Oh Keo-don due to the allegations of sexual harassment. He successfully defeated the Democratic candidate Kim Young-choon with a large margin.
Park represented the Grand National Party (GNP) in the National Assembly as the Member for Suyeong from 2004 until in 2008, when he was defeated to the independent candidate Yoo Jae-jung, who later returned to the GNP. Though he lost again to Yoo in 2012, he served as the Secretary-General of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2016. He also served as the Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs from 2009 to 2010 under the President Lee Myung-bak.
Prior to his political career, Park worked as a journalist of JoongAng Ilbo and Monthly Mal. Since 2010s, he has been a commentator in various programmes i.e. Battle of Tongues, Powerful Opponents, Let's Be Politicians and so on.