30 Facts About Chung Mong-joon

Chung Mong-joon or Chung Mong Joon is a South Korean businessman and politician.

Chung Mong-joon is the sixth son of Chung Ju-yung, founder of Hyundai, the second-largest South Korean chaebol before its breakup in 2003.

Chung Mong-joon remains the controlling shareholder of a Hyundai offshoot, Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, parent of the world's largest shipbuilding company.

Chung Mong-joon is the chairman of the board of the University of Ulsan and Ulsan College in Ulsan, South Korea.

Chung Mong-joon is the founder and the honorary chairman of The Asan Institute for Policy Studies.

Chung Mong-joon was Honorary Vice-President of FIFA and president of the South Korean football association.

Chung Mong-joon served as a representative of this particular district for 20 years.

Chung Mong-joon joined Grand National Party in 2007 shortly before 2007 South Korean presidential election, declaring his support to that party's presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak.

Chung Mong-joon participated in Roh's presidential campaign up to the last day before the election, Dec 19,2002.

Roh's presidential camp was stunned by this, and Roh tried to allay Chung Mong-joon by visiting his home in person on the very last night before the presidential election, but Chung Mong-joon kept his front door closed and refused to see Roh.

Chung Mong-joon's joining of Grand National Party is an irony because his withdrawal from the presidential race in 2002 supporting Roh Moo-hyun was responsible for Grand National Party's failure in winning the presidential election.

Roh's regime wasn't able to refuse the demand of investigation, and Chung Mong-joon Mong-hun committed suicide when he was investigated about the use of $15 million worth of Korean won which was suspected to had been money laundered after its withdrawal from Hyundai's bank accounts.

In conclusion Chung Mong-joon settled at the party which had been at odds with him before.

Chung Mong-joon was known to be suspended and repeat courses for cheating final exam when he was a freshman in Seoul National University.

Chung Mong-joon was caught by an exam monitor when he was peeping at some other classmate's exam over shoulder during final exam.

Chung Mong-joon was reported to disciplinary committee and got such punishment after the incidence.

Chung Mong-joon gave an excuse for this, saying he cheated final exam trying to finish it early to go out with his friends.

Chung Mong-joon is the only known public figure in Korean history having such record.

Chung Mong-joon explained about his real mother in his autobiography in 2011.

Chung Mong-joon says that when he studied in US in 1978, he received a letter from someone in Korea who claimed to be his real mother.

Chung Mong-joon hurried to return to Korea, and met her at her place, according to his autobiography.

Chung Mong-joon said that it was the first and last time that he was going to see her.

On top of publishing his autobiography, Chung Mong-joon donated huge sums of money and set up a charity foundation in 2011, a year before 2012 presidential election.

Chung Mong-joon said he funded it to commemorate his late father Chung Ju-yung, but many couldn't dismiss reasonable suspicion that his motivation was to impress the public before the presidential election.

Chung Mong-joon didn't think of Park Geun-hye as accomplished as himself before 2012 presidential election.

When Park Geun-hye wrote an article about North Korean issue in Foreign Affairs, Chung Mong-joon discredited it claiming someone else had written it under her name.

Chung Mong-joon was the first politician who submitted application for registration as a preliminary presidential candidate on May 1,2012, but dropped out of the race in a couple of months.

Chung Mong-joon wanted rule change for primary election so that general population choose party's presidential candidate, but he wasn't able to make this demand sound serious to Grand National Party, since Park Geun-hye's followers dominated and controlled the party.

Chung Mong-joon gave up his candidacy and supported Park after.

Chung Mong-joon is losing popular support in South Korean politics now.