Minister of Culture (South Korea)

The South Korean Minister of Culture oversees the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The ministry was established on 3 January 1990 by Presidential Decree Number 12895,^[1] under the Roh Tae-woo Government. The first Minister of Culture was novelist Lee O-young.^[2]

List of Ministers of Culture

Yu In-chon (유인촌) (29 February 2008 - 26 January 2011)
Choung Byoung-gug (정병국) (27 January 2011 - 19 September 2011)
Choe Kwang-shik (최광식) (2 September 2011 - 10 March 10)
Yoo Jin-ryong (11 March 2013 - 16 July 2014)^[3]^[4]
Kim Jong-deok (August 21, 2014 – September 4, 2016)^[5]
Cho Yoon-sun (5 September 2016 – 21 January 2017)^[6]^[7]

↑ "About MCST: History". Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
↑ "Lee O Young". Korean Literature Now. Literature Translation Institute of Korea.
↑ "Yoo Jin-ryong, a respected and seasoned cultural bureaucrat". Yonhap. 13 February 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
↑ Kim Hoo-ran (27 October 2016). "Troubling revelations about Seoul's 'Shadow President': The Korea Herald columnist". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 28 October 2016.
↑ "Park taps art professor as culture minister". Yonhap News Agency. 3 August 2014. Archived from the original on 24 January 2017.
↑ "Park's trusted confident named new culture minister". Yonhap News Agency. 16 August 2016. Archived from the original on 21 January 2017.
↑ Jung Nok-yong (23 January 2017). "Culture Minister Resigns After Arrest". The Chosunilbo. Archived from the original on 24 January 2017.

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