Cho Jung-hun is a South Korean economist and politician.
15 Facts About Cho Jung-hun
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Cho Jung-hun is one of the co-founders of the minor liberal Transition Korea party, along with Lee Won-jae.
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Cho Jung-hun passed the Young Professionals Programme of the World Bank.
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From 2005 to 2008, Cho Jung-hun worked under the Technical Advisory Team of the World Bank where he worked as a part of negotiations for Kosovo independence and fiscal decentralization from Serbia.
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Cho Jung-hun applied for the Democratic list but was not officially registered.
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In 2020, Cho Jung-hun co-founded Transition Korea along with Lee Won-jae.
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Cho Jung-hun was elected to be the party president but resigned in order to run under the Platform Party banner.
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Cho Jung-hun ran 6th in the Platform Party list and was elected.
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On 12 May 2020, Cho Jung-hun officially left the Platform Party and returned to his original party.
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On March 19,2023, Cho Jung-hun received international attention for suggesting that Korea solve its population crisis by importing domestic workers from Southeast Asian nations and paying them half the legal minimum wage.
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Cho Jung-hun is politically syncretic, rejecting to be neither conservative nor liberal but being as pragmatic.
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Cho Jung-hun is critical towards Anti-TADA, saying that "renovation is from the market but it should not be prevented at the beginning".
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Cho Jung-hun added that should TADA gives negative influences to taxi drivers, the benefits earned must be shared with taxi drivers rather than simply prohibiting the platform.
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Cho Jung-hun gained much support for his first interpellation session where he maintained a polite attitude asking unconventional questions.
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Cho Jung-hun pointed out the exacerbating economic disparity in Korean society and invited fellow politicians to take measures to alleviate polarization.