Lee Myung-bak government

Cabinet of Lee Myung-bak

Cabinet of South Korea
Date formed25 February 2008
Date dissolved24 February 2013
People and organisations
Head of stateLee Myung-bak
Head of governmentLee Myung-bak
Member partySaenuri Party
History
Election2007 South Korean presidential election 2008 South Korean legislative election
PredecessorCabinet of Roh Moo-hyun
SuccessorCabinet of Park Geun-hye

The Lee Myung-bak government (Korean이명박 정부; Hanja李明博政府, RR: I Myeong-bak Jeongbu) was the fifth government of the Sixth Republic of South Korea. It took office on 25 February 2008 after Lee Myung-bak's victory in the 2007 presidential elections. Most of the new cabinet was approved by the National Assembly on 29 February. Led by President Lee Myung-bak, it was supported principally by the conservative Saenuri Party, previously known as the Grand National Party. It was also known as Silyong Jeongbu (Korean실용정부; Hanja實用政府), the "pragmatic government", a name deriving from Lee's campaign slogan.

A provisional committee established shortly before the government's inauguration presented proposals with the intention of creating a more compact government.[1] The main objective of the administration was cited in 2011 as "the foundation of micro-government and macro-market ideas to revive the economy".[2] Politically, the administration was marked by an ongoing internal dispute between the factions of Lee and Park Geun-hye within the ruling party after an intense contest between the two in the primaries preceding the 2007 elections.[3] The government presided over issues such as the South Korea foot-and-mouth outbreak, the ratification of the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement, the 2011 South Korean university tuition crisis and the Jeju-do Naval Base.

The Lee Myung-bak government ended on 25 February 2013 with the inauguration of Park Geun-hye as president.

  1. ^ Cho Hyeon-u (조현우) (17 January 2008). '통일부' 정말 없어지나?, 네티즌 '갑론을박'. DC News (in Korean). Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  2. ^ Hwang Jun-beom (황준범) (16 December 2007). 한나라 "새 정부 이름은 실용정부". Hankyoreh (in Korean). Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  3. ^ International Crisis Group (21 December 2007). "South Korea: What to Expect from President Lee". Crisis Group Asia Briefing N°73, p. 3.