12 Facts About Pyo Chang-won

Pyo Chang-won is a South Korean politician, with professional expertise in police studies and politics.

Pyo Chang-won stated he wanted "to realize justice through politics", and announced his candidacy for the 2016 parliamentary election.

Pyo Chang-won was elected to the National Assembly as a member of the Democratic Party.

Pyo Chang-won decided not to run for reelection on the 21st National Assembly elections, instead opening the Pyo Chang-won Institute of Crime Science while hosting a radio show at MBC and current affairs program Scandal Supervisor on JTBC.

Later, with a letter from his doctoral advisor, Pyo Chang-won denied the allegations and claimed the alleged plagiarisms were minor mistakes in citations.

In 2016, additional plagiarism was found in his doctoral dissertation, but Pyo Chang-won's representatives said in response that the issue of Pyo Chang-won's had already been addressed, and there is no further comment to be made.

On November 28,2016, Pyo Chang-won made a remark on his political opposition of having the mind of a group rapist, based on neutralization theory.

Several days later on December 15,2016, Pyo Chang-won commented on TV that supporters of Park Geun-hye have similar minds as group rapists.

On November 30,2016, Pyo Chang-won released a list of politicians who opposed President Park's impeachment, now known as the Pyo Chang-won Changwon List.

On January 20,2017, Pyo Chang-won hosted a galleria at the parliament which included artworks satirizing Park.

The galleria was halted and President Moon criticized Pyo Chang-won for hosting the event.

Pyo Chang-won was put under investigation by the Ethics Committee of the Democratic Party of Korea, and was banned from holding a post within the party for six months.