Hong Joon-pyo

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Hong Joon-pyo
홍준표
Mayor of Daegu
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2022
Preceded by	Kwon Young-jin
Governor of South Gyeongsang Province
In office 20 December 2012 – 9 April 2017
Preceded by	Kim Doo-kwan
Succeeded by	Kim Kyoung-soo
Member of the National Assembly
In office 30 May 1996 – 9 March 1999
Preceded by	Cho Soon-hwan
Succeeded by	Lee Hoi-chang
Constituency	Seoul Songpa A
In office 26 October 2001 – 29 May 2012
Preceded by	Kim Young-koo
Succeeded by	Min Byung-doo
Constituency	Seoul Dongdaemun B
In office 30 May 2020 – 26 April 2022
Preceded by	Joo Ho-young
Succeeded by	Lee In-seon
Constituency	Daegu Suseong B
Leader of the Grand National Party/Liberty Korea Party
In office 4 July 2011 – 9 December 2011
Preceded by	Jeong Ui-ha
Succeeded by	Na Kyung-won
In office 3 July 2017[1] – 14 June 2018[2]
Preceded by	Chung Woo-taik
Succeeded by	Kim Sung-tae
Personal details
Born	(1953-11-20) 20 November 1953 (age 70) Changnyeong, South Korea
Political party	People Power[3]
Other political affiliations	Independent (March 2020–June 2021) Liberty Korea Party New Korea Party
Children	2
Relatives	See Namyang Hong clan
Alma mater	Korea University
Signature
Korean name
Hangul	홍준표
Hanja	洪準杓
Revised Romanization	Hong Junpyo
McCune–Reischauer	Hong Chunp'yo

Hong Joon-pyo (Korean: 홍준표; born 20 November 1953), also spelled as Hong Jun-pyo, is a South Korean politician and former prosecutor who is the current Mayor of Daegu. He previously served as the governor of South Gyeongsang Province, a member of the National Assembly for five terms, and the party leader of the conservative Grand National Party in 2011 and its successor incarnation the Liberty Korea Party from 2017 to 2018.

He was the presidential nominee of the Liberty Korea Party in the 2017 South Korean presidential election and came in second place during the general election, losing to Moon Jae-in.^[4] Hong ran as a candidate in the 2022 South Korean presidential election for the nomination of the conservative People Power Party and came in second place during the primaries, narrowly losing to Yoon Suk-yeol.^[5]