Yang Seung-jo (; born 21 March 1959) is a South Korean lawyer and politician. He has served as the governor of

South Chungcheong Province South Chungcheong Province (), informally called Chungnam, is a Administrative divisions of South Korea, province of South Korea in the Hoseo region in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula. South Chungcheong borders the provinces of Gyeonggi to ...

since 2018.

Early life

Yang Seung-jo was born in

Cheonan Cheonan (; ) is the largest and most densely populated city of South Chungcheong Province, South Korea, and the third largest city in the Hoseo region after Daejeon and Cheongju. Cheonan borders Gyeonggi Province ( Pyeongtaek and Anseong) i ...

, 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

In 2004, Yang Seung-jo ran for a Member of the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

and he won the

election An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold Public administration, public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative d ...

. He served as the chief of staff for Chairman of the Democratic Party

Sohn Hak-kyu Sohn Hak-kyu (; born 22 November 1947) is a South Korean politician and former governor of Gyeonggi Province, the most populous province in Korea. He became a politician in 1996 as a congressman of the Grand National Party and governor of Gyeon ...

and served as the head of the election campaign committee for

during the 2012 Democratic Party presidential primary. And he became a member of the Supreme council of the Democratic Party in May 2013. Yang was elected governor of

in the 2018 local elections.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Seung-jo 1959 births Living people Democratic Party of Korea politicians Politicians from South Chungcheong Province Governors of South Chungcheong Province