10 Facts About Chang Dae-whan

Chang Dae-whan is best known as the president of the Maeil Business Newspaper, South Korea's main business daily.

Chang Dae-whan is the founder of the World Knowledge Forum.

Chang Dae-whan served a brief stint as South Korea's acting prime minister in August 2002 under president Kim Dae-jung, but the National Assembly voted not to confirm him.

Chang Dae-whan serves as the president of the South Korean branch of the NYU alumni association.

Chang Dae-whan started his newspaper career as a manager of planning department at Maeil Business Newspaper on 1 January 1986.

Chang Dae-whan then rose to the position of director, managing director, and executive director successively, finally becoming the president and publisher in 1988.

Chang Dae-whan is a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.

Chang Dae-whan was named as South Korea's acting PM on 9 August 2002, after the National Assembly declined to confirm his predecessor Chang Dae-whan Sang.

The nomination was a surprise to fellow top-level civil servants in their 60s, as Chang Dae-whan was just 50 years old at the time, and had no experience in government.

Chang Dae-whan himself acknowledged in a press conference that he had falsely registered himself as living in Seoul's Gangnam District to enroll his son in a better school.