Hong Moon-jong, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hong Moon-jong

South Korean politician

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1955

Place of Birth: Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Profession: politician

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Hong Moon-jong (Korean: ???; born 26 May 1955) is a South Korean politician currently serving as a member of the National Assembly in Uijeongbu 2nd constituency.
He also served as the Secretary-General of Saenuri Party.
He is the son of the late former politician Hong Woo-jun. Born at Yangju, Hong studied at Harvard University.
He started his political career when he entered to Democratic Liberal Party (then New Korea Party aka NKP) in 1995.
During the general election in 1996, he defeated Moon Hee-sang from National Congress for New Politics (NCNP).
In 1997, he left NKP and joined National Party - New (NPN) in order to endorse Lee In-je as the upcoming President.
Hong stood up as a nonpartisan candidate in 2000 despite of his lost.
He temporarily came back as MP after the by-election in 2003, till he lost just after a year. After involving several controversies, Hong officially came back as MP in 2012.
He was then re-elected in 2016.
As one of the politicians supporting ex-President Park Geun-hye, he endorsed her as President in 2007.
He unsuccessfully ran as the parliamentary leader of Liberty Korea Party (LKP) in 2017.In 2019, Hong announced to leave LKP.
A minor political party named Korean Patriots' Party elected Hong as the party president along with incumbent Cho Won-jin, and the party officially changed their name as Our Republic.