Yang Hyang-ja

Yang Hyang-ja (Korean: 양향자; Hanja: 梁香子; born 4 April 1967) is a South Korean politician previously served as the 28th president of National Human Resource Management Institute (NHI) of Ministry of Personnel Management under President Moon Jae-in. She was the first woman to lead the Institute since the relevant position was founded in 1960s.[1]

Yang Hyang-ja
양향자
President of National Human Resource Management Institute
In office
31 August 2018 – 1 August 2019
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Prime MinisterLee Nak-yeon
Preceded byOh Dong-ho
Succeeded byPark Chun-ran
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
30 May 2020
Preceded byChun Jung-bae
ConstituencyGwangju Seo B
Personal details
Born (1967-04-04) 4 April 1967
Hwasun County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea
Political partyDemocratic
Alma maternow-Cyber University of Korea
Sungkyunkwan University
This is a Korean name; the family name is Yang.

After graduating from Gwangju Girls' Commercial High School, she went to Samsung Electronics at the age of 18 (or 19 in Korea) as an assistant to semiconductor memory researchers at the company. Since then she had worked for the company's departments related to memory semi-conductors for over three decades. In 2014 she was promoted to the executive for its flash memory development becoming its first female executive without higher education,[2] from Honam region and one-year earlier than her co-workers.

She completed tertiary education while working at Samsung. She earned a bachelor degree from now-Cyber University of Korea, which was co-founded by Samsung in 2000, in 2005 and masters from Sungkyunkwan University, which has close partnerships with Samsung, in 2008.[3]

She was contacted by then-party leader Moon Jae-in in late 2015. She resigned from Samsung in December 2015 for her political career which began in 2016 when she officially became member of Democratic Party and later nominee for Gwangju constituency at the 2016 general election. After losing her election, she continued her commitment to politics. She was one of five elected members of Supreme Council of party for two years before resigning for the president of the NHI in August 2018.[4][5]

In 2020 general election, she defeated six-term parliamentarian Chun Jung-bae becoming the only woman representing a district in Honam region.[6]

Electoral history
Election Year District Party Affiliation Votes Percentage of votes Results
20th National Assembly General Election 2016 Gwangju Seo B Democratic Party 24,603 31.5% Lost
21st National Assembly General Election 2020 Gwangju Seo B Democratic Party 61,279 75.83% Won

Published works

Yang's biography, Fly Towards Dream Beyond Dream, Hyang-ja[7]

References
  1. "역대원장" [List of President of the Institute] (in Korean).
  2. Herald, The Korea (2016-03-01). "[ELECTION 2016] Parties try to add diversity to election rosters". www.koreaherald.com. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  3. "[프로필] 양향자 신임 국가공무원인재개발원장". news.chosun.com (in Korean). 2018-08-30. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
  4. "양향자 전 최고위원, 18일 서구을 예비후보 등록…5.18묘지 참배". 이뉴스투데이 (in Korean). 2019-12-18. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
  5. tf.co.kr (2019-11-29). "[TF기획-문재인 키즈③] 양향자 "다시 영입해주시면 안될까요^^"". 더팩트 (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-06-20.
  6. "'강원·충청·호남·영남·제주' 유일 與 여성의원, 양향자의 정치". the300 (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-06-20.
  7. Kkum neomeo kkum eul hyanghae nalja, Hyangja. Yang, Hyangja., 양향자, 1967-. Seoul: Bitabeata. 2018. ISBN 9791157061129. OCLC 1077383238.CS1 maint: others (link)
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