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Nationality
  
South Korean

Political party
  
Saenuri Party


Website
  
Official Website

Name
  
Lee Sang-don

Born
  
4 December 1951 (age 72) BusanSouth Korea (
1951-12-04
)

Alma mater
  
Seoul National UniversityTulane University

Profession
  
legal scholar, activist, politician

lee sang don


Lee Sang-don (born December 4, 1951) is a South Korean legal scholar and a conservative political activist. He currently works as a professor at Chung-Ang University. He is a conservative pundit well-known for expressing criticisms towards the Lee Myung-bak government. He received criticisms from a group of pro-Lee Myung-bak lawmakers for participating in the restructure of the Saenuri Party (formally Grand National Party) in the past due to his distance with Lee Myung-bak. He is currently the political reformer for the Saenuri Party under Park Geun-hye.

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He is currently a member of the People's Party and has been elected in 2016 to serve as member of the National Assembly of Korea.

Early life

Sang-don was born in Busan. He graduated in Seoul National University with a B.A. and M.A. in law and later received his Ph.D from Tulane University in law.

On Lee Myung-bak

  • He is critical against the real estate cover-ups made by the South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, in Naegok-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul.
  • He had expressed concerns through his blog how Lee Myung-bak's political associates could potentially drag down the Lee Myung-bak government and his affiliated Saenuri Party (then Grand National Party) after the next presidential election due to Lee's extensive history of political corruptions.
  • He once said in 2010 that Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye should have separated on their own way because "Lee Myung-bak's leadership heads itself to a potential Watergate scandal-like incident". This incident refers to the South Korean illegal surveillance incident. Lee Myung-bak has been politically isolated from the ruling Saenuri Party as Chairperson Hong Jun-pyo, resigned.

    • On the Supreme Prosecutors' Office

  • He proposed an extensive restructure of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office of the Republic of Korea as the organization itself covers up the corruptions generated by officials in the Lee Myung-bak government.

    • Incidents

    On April 4, 2012, Lee abruptly left a live political debate program shown in tvN Asia that generated controversies.

    Works

  • Lee, Sang-don, 세계의 트렌드를 읽는 100권의 책, 기파랑 (March 20, 2006), ISBN 978-89-91965-94-2
  • Lee, Sang-don, 비판적 환경주의자, 브레인북스 (December 15, 2006), ISBN 978-89-92447-01-0
  • Lee, Sang-don, 위기에 처한 대한민국, 경덕출판사 (July 20, 2007), ISBN 978-89-91197-43-5
  • Lee, Sang-don, 조용한 혁명, 뷰스 (June 9, 2011), ISBN 978-89-92037-76-1

    • References

    Lee Sang-don Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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