Hwang Young-cheul (, born 13 July 1965) is a politician of South Korea and currently one of the member of parliament of

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, Yanggu County and

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Biography

Born at

, Gangwon Province. He started his political career in 1995, by elected as one of the member of state council of Gangwon-do. He was re-elected in 1998. In 2000, he ran for the member of parliament for

Hongcheon Hongcheon (''Hongcheon-gun'') is a county and city in Gangwon Province, South Korea. The city lies on the northern bank of the Hongcheon River, southeast of Chuncheon. The terrain of the county is mainly mountainous and contains hot springs in th ...

- Hwaengsung, but defeated. His challenge was repeated in 2004, but the result was same. However, when he ran again in 2008, he was finally elected and also in 2012. In 2016, he was elected again with the new constituency - Hongcheon-Cheorwon-Hwacheon-Yanggu-Inje. During the period of the impeachment of the president

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, he was one of the member for hearings, along with

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and

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. And he left

Saenuri Party The Liberty Korea Party () was a conservative political party in South Korea that was described variously as right-wing, right-wing populist, or far-right. Until February 2017, it was known as the Saenuri Party (), and before that as the Hanna ...

and joined for

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, on 23 December 2016.

Controversy

Corruption scandal

When he was elected as a member of parliament in 2016, he was arrested due to a corruption scandal. At the first trial, he was sentenced a penalty for 700 thousands won. He then, was appealed for high court by the attorney, although the result was same. On the other hand, as those who're sentenced less than 1 million won can continue their positions, he had no problem to keep his membership.

Leaving from Bareun Party

On 2 May 2017, 14 members of the

declared that they would return to

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(formerly Saenuri Party) and support

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as the future president, rather than

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. Hwang was one of them, however, suddenly cancelled the returning. The reason was that the returning of them was strongly opposed by pro-Parks in LKP. However, later than, he spoke up to combine Bareun with LKP, and finally returned to LKP on the November of the year.

References

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