Honorific Prefix: | The Honourable | ||||||||
Kim Byong-joon | |||||||||
Native Name Lang: | ko | ||||||||
Office: | Chairman of the Liberty Korea Party | ||||||||
Term Start: | 17 July 2018 | ||||||||
Term End: | 26 February 2019 | ||||||||
Successor: | Hwang Kyo-ahn | ||||||||
Office1: | Minister of Education and Human Resources Development | ||||||||
President1: | Roh Moo-hyun | ||||||||
Term Start1: | 21 July 2006 | ||||||||
Term End1: | 7 August 2006 | ||||||||
Predecessor1: | Kim Jin-pyo | ||||||||
Successor1: | Lee Chong-suh | ||||||||
Birth Date: | 26 March 1954 | ||||||||
Birth Place: | Goryeong, South Korea | ||||||||
Party: | People Power | ||||||||
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Kim Byong-joon (; born 26 March 1954) is a former chief of staff (minister), Presidential Office of National Policies, Republic of Korea/ the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Human Resources Development. He is designated Prime Minister of South Korea by President Park Geun-hye, on November 2, 2016, but Park withdrew her designate November 8.
Kim was born in Goryeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do.[1] He received his B.A degree from Yeungnam University in 1976, M.A degree from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in 1979, and PhD degree from University of Delaware in 1984.