From a naturalized South Korean doctor of US missionary descent to a four-time Olympic pistol shooting champion and the former chief executive officer of the country’s largest business conglomerate, several new faces are pursuing a second career in politics through the April 10 general election. New to the National Assembly is Kwak Sang-eon of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea, who won an Assembly s.
Former corporate executives who ran for a seat at the National Assembly received mixed results as the votes from the general election were announced Thursday. The two headliners Koh Dong-jin, former president of Samsung Electronics, and Kong Young-woon, former president of Hyundai Motor found each other on opposite ends of the spectrum as the former won while the latter suffered a loss. Koh, who joined the ruli.