Na Kyung-won

Na Kyung-won
나경원
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
31 July 2014
Constituency Seoul Dongjak B
In office
30 May 2008 – 28 September 2011
Constituency Seoul Jung
In office
30 May 2004 – 29 May 2008
Constituency Proportional representation
Personal details
Born (1963-12-06) 6 December 1963
Seoul, South Korea
Nationality South Korean
Political party Liberty Korea
Na Kyung-won
Hangul 나경원
Hanja 羅卿瑗
Revised Romanization Na Gyeongwon
McCune–Reischauer Ra Kyŏngwŏn

Na Kyung-won (나경원, born 6 December 1963) is a South Korean politician and lawyer. She was a member of the conservative Saenuri Party (formerly the Grand National Party).

Early life and education

Na was born on 6 December 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. She graduated from Seoul National University with a bachelor's degree alongside her master's and doctoral in law.[1]

Career

In 1995, Na became a judge working for administrative courts of South Korea.[1] She started her political career as a special aide for women's affairs under Lee Hoi-chang in 2002 during the presidential election.[2][3] She was one of two candidates of the October 2011 Seoul mayoral by-election after Oh Se-hoon resigned his position as mayor, but lost the election to Park Won-soon.[4]

Na did not run for the 2012 legislative election due to allegations that her husband Kim Jae-ho had been involved in a clandestine deal with a prosecutor from the Supreme Prosecutors' Office.[5] She subsequently ran as a candidate for Dongjak B in a July 2014 by-election, and claimed victory against the Justice Party's Roh Hoe-chan, by a difference of 929 votes.[6]

Outside of her political career, Na began working in sports for South Korea in 2005. She became the president of Special Olympics Korea in 2005 and the Korean Wheelchair Rugby Association in 2006. In 2009, Na was selected to the Korean Paralympic Committee and elected vice president of the KPC in 2013. Also in 2013, Na was named onto the International Paralympic Committee[1] and reelected in 2017.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Kyung-won Na" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  2. ↑ Lee, Jeong-mi (2011-10-11). '아메리카의 전여옥' 페일린, 나경원 후보 만난다. 민중의소리 (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-10-13.
  3. ↑ Lee, Tae-hoon (September 23, 2011). "Na joins mayoral race". The Korea Times. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  4. ↑ Ahn, Christine (January 6, 2012). "A Korean Spring?". Eurasia Review. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  5. ↑ Song, Sang-ho (2012-03-08). "Saenuri Party's Na not to run in April elections". Korean Herald. Retrieved 2012-03-08.
  6. ↑ Kang, Jin-kyu (2014-07-31). "Saenuri achieving landslide victory". Joongang Daily. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  7. ↑ Ji-youn, Kwon (17 March 2017). "Na elected to Int'l Paralympic Committee board". Korean Times. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
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