1. Kim Hwang-sik is a South Korean lawyer and politician who served as the prime minister of South Korea from October 2010 to February 2013 under President Lee Myung-bak.
10 Facts About Kim Hwang-sik
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Kim Hwang-sik was the former Chairperson of the Board of Audit and Inspection.
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Kim Hwang-sik was the only member in the Lee Myung-bak Government who came from the liberal Honam Region.
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Kim Hwang-sik was born in Jangseong, studied law at Marburg University and graduated from Seoul National University.
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Kim Hwang-sik passed National Judicial Examination and had since made rounds through regional courts as a judge.
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Kim Hwang-sik served as a Supreme Court justice from 2005 to 2008.
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Kim Hwang-sik has served as the Chairperson of Board of Audit and Inspection from September 2008.
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Kim Hwang-sik quit the BAI post just halfway into its four-year term; he was the second person to be appointed prime minister straight from the top BAI post after Lee Hoi-chang.
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Kim Hwang-sik was exempted from being drafted for the two-year military service in 1972 by claiming to have a thyroid gland disorder.
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Kim Hwang-sik's brother ran the hospital which gave him the diagnosis.