Paek Nam-un

Paek Nam-un
백남운
Paek in 1948
Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly
In office
16 December 1967 – 28 December 1972
Preceded byChoe Won-taek
Succeeded byHwang Jang-yop
Vice Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly Standing Committee
3rd term
In office
23 October 1962 – 16 December 1967
ChairmanChoe Yong-gon
2nd term
In office
25 March 1961 – 23 October 1962
ChairmanChoe Yong-gon
Minister of Education
In office
9 September 1948 – 16 January 1956
PremierKim Il Sung
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byKim Chang-man
Personal details
Born(1894-02-11)11 February 1894
North Hamgyong Province, Korea
Died12 June 1979(1979-06-12) (aged 85)
Political partyWorkers' Party of Korea
Alma materCommunist University of the Toilers of the East
Military service
Allegiance North Korea

Paek Nam-un (Korean: 백남운; 11 February 1894 – 12 June 1979) was an economist, educator and politician during the Japanese colonial period and following the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He was a professor of economics at Yeonhee College and an economic theorist of the Communist Party of Korea, and a representative figure of socialist economists during the Japanese colonial period along with Lee Soon-Tak. After the independence, on the premise of some asset class and solidarity, in the article 'The Path of the Chosun People's', 'Combination of New Democracy (National Unification Front)' was proposed. After liberation, Kim Doo-bong, Heo Jeong-suk, and Choi Chang-ik connected with Nam Joseon New Democratic Party and Nationalist Democratic Front, but did not come down after coming to North Korea with Kim Gu, Kim Kyu-sik, Jang Geon-sang in April 1948. Since then, he served as the first literary statue of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly.