Joo Yang-ja (; January 1, 1931 – February 4, 2025) was a South Korean politician and medical doctor. She served as the 25th Minister of Health and Welfare of the Republic of Korea and in the 14th and 15th

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. Joo was elected to the National Assembly in the 1992 election as a list candidate for the Democratic Liberal Party. She lost her seat on March 2, 1996, when she left the party to join the

United Liberal Democrats The United Liberal Democrats (ULD; ) was a right-wing politics, right-wing conservatism, conservative political party in South Korea, whose support mostly came from the North Chungcheong Province and South Chungcheong Province regions. The short ...

, and was replaced by . Joo was ranked 12th on the party list for the 1996 election and initially did not win a seat. She was appointed Minister of Health and Welfare in 1998. On February 7, 2000, she would return to the National Assembly, succeeding as a proportional member when he left the United Liberal Democrats. Joo died on February 4, 2025, at the age of 94.주양자 전 보건복지부장관 별세

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