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Park Sang-woo (; born 9 November 1955) is the 8th Minister of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of South Korea.


Early life

Park was born in
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, South Korea. He graduated from the Department of Public Administration at
Korea University Korea University (KU, ) is a Private university, private research university in Seoul, South Korea. Established in 1905 by Yi Yong-ik, Lee Yong-Ik, a prominent official of the Korean Empire, Korea University is among South Korea's oldest List of ...
in
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. He received a master's degree in urban and regional planning from
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in the United States and a doctorate in engineering in urban planning from Gachon University in
Incheon Incheon is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi Province to the east. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Incheon was home to just 4,700 people when it became an international port in 1883. As of February 2020, ...
.


Career

He entered public service through the 27th Administrative Examination. He served as the Director of the Housing Policy Division, Director of the Construction Policy Division, and Director of the Planning and Coordination Division at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and served as the Director of the Housing and Land Division during the
Lee Myung-bak government The Cabinet of Lee Myung-bak () was the fifth government of the History of South Korea#Sixth Republic (1988–present), Sixth Republic of South Korea. It took office on 25 February 2008 after Lee Myung-bak's victory in the 2007 South Korean presid ...
. At that time, he promoted several policies, including the relaxation of the upper limit on the sale price and the abolition of the excess profit recovery system for reconstruction. Afterwards, he served as the president of the Korea Construction Policy Research Institute, and in 2016, he was appointed president of the Korea Land & Housing Corporation (LH), where he served until 2019. In December 2023, he took office as Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. In June 2024, he expressed his support for the abolition of the Comprehensive Real Estate Tax.


References

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