1. Lee Ju-ho is a South Korean economist who has served as the acting president of South Korea and acting prime minister of South Korea since May 2025.
10 Facts About Lee Ju-ho
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Lee Ju-ho has served as the deputy prime minister and education minister since 2022.
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Lee Ju-ho is a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management.
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Lee Ju-ho Joo-ho was born in Chilgok County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea on 17 February 1961.
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Lee Ju-ho served as a Korea Development Institute professor before entering the 17th National Assembly as a proportional representative in 2004.
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Lee Ju-ho was appointed as Minister once more in 2022 in the Yoon Suk Yeol government.
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Lee Ju-ho established the Neulbom School program, which provided free after-school care to young elementary students, and oversaw efforts to increase medical school enrollment by 2,000 seats, which ultimately failed.
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Lee Ju-ho advocated for the use of digital textbooks, particularly artificial intelligence-based textbooks introduced this school year.
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On 2 May 2025, Lee Ju-ho ascended to the presidency and the premiership, which came after the sudden resignations of the previous acting president and prime minister, Han Duck-soo and the deputy prime minister, Choi Sang-mok.
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Lee Ju-ho directed acting Defense Minister Kim Seon-ho to thoroughly oversee military surveillance and readiness and to elevate the country's military preparedness posture to the highest level, to be able to respond "rapidly and sternly" to any and all types of provocations, directing all public servants to maintain strict discipline when it came to their work and political neutrality ahead of the presidential election.