Won Hee-ryong

Won Hee-ryong
원희룡
Governor of Jeju Province
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2014
Preceded by	Woo Keun-min
Member of the National Assembly
In office 30 May 2000 – 29 May 2012
Preceded by	Park Bum-jin
Succeeded by	Kil Jeong-woo
Constituency	Yangcheon 1st (Seoul)
Personal details
Born	(1964-02-14) 14 February 1964 Seogwipo, South Korea
Political party	Bareun Party
Alma mater	Seoul National University

Won Hee-ryong (born February 14, 1964) is a South Korean politician.^[1] He is a member of the 16th, 17th, and 18th National Assembly, and was a Supreme Council Member of the conservative Grand National Party. He is now governor of Jeju Province.

He is a young politician who speaks for Moderate-Rights. He is notable for putting a break on his party not to have strong leanings toward conservatism. He does not always adopt his party's policies and convictions.

He graduated from college of law in Seoul National University. He is well known for being ranked first in two major state examinations: the College Scholastic Ability Test (1982) and the National Judicial Exam (1992).

During his youth, he carried on the labour and student movements of Korea for 7 years, fighting for the right of labour and democratization.

Passing the 34th National Judicial Exam (1992), he worked as a public prosecutor in Seoul, Yeoju, and Busan.

Since then, he has been elected as a member of National Assembly (2000), served as a member of Science, Technology, Information & Telecommunication Committee, Legislation & Judiciary Committee (2002), Unification, Foreign Affairs & Trade Committee (2004), Finance & Economy Committee (2006), and Commerce, Industry & Energy Committee (2007) in the National Assembly.

He has been a member of World Economic Forum since 2003 and was elected as a young global leader by WEF (2005^[2]).

In 2005 Won wrote his life "I Am Dreaming Of Sub-Three."

In 2007, Won ran for the party presidential candidacy; he gained only 1% of votes.^[3]

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