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Cho Kuk | |
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조국 | |
![]() Official portrait, 2019 | |
Leader of the Rebuilding Korea Party | |
Assumed office 3 March 2024 | |
Preceded by | Office established |
Member of the National Assembly | |
Assumed office 30 May 2024 | |
Constituency | Proportional representation |
Minister of Justice | |
In office 9 September 2019 – 14 October 2019 | |
President | Moon Jae-in |
Preceded by | Park Sang-ki |
Succeeded by | Kim Oh-soo (acting) Choo Mi-ae |
Senior Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs | |
In office 11 May 2017 – 26 July 2019 | |
President | Moon Jae-in |
Preceded by | Cho Dae-hwan |
Succeeded by | Kim Joe-won |
Personal details | |
Born | West District, Busan, South Korea | 6 April 1965
Citizenship | South Korean |
Political party | Rebuilding Korea Party |
Other political affiliations |
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Spouse | Chung Kyung-shim |
Children | 2, including Cho Min |
Alma mater | Seoul National University (LLB, LLM) University of California, Berkeley (JSD) |
Occupation | Jurist, activist, politician |
Signature | ![]() |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 조국 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Jo Guk |
McCune–Reischauer | Cho Kuk |
Cho Kuk (Korean: 조국; born 6 April 1965[1]) is a South Korean politician who has served as a member of the National Assembly since 2024. The founder and leader of the Rebuilding Korea Party,[2] Cho served as Minister of Justice from September to October 2019 and as Senior Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs from 2017 to 2019 in the Moon Jae-in Cabinet.
In 2019, Cho Kuk was involved in a series of controversies, including allegations of corruption surrounding his family's business activities. On 14 October, in the wake of these controversies, Cho Kuk announced his resignation.[3] In 2023, Cho was convicted of falsifying documents for his children's college admissions and sentenced to two years in prison.