Lee Eui-geun

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Lee Eui-geun
Hangul 이의근
Hanja 李義根
Revised Romanization I Eui-geun
McCune–Reischauer I Ŭi-kŭn

Lee Eui-geun (7 November 1938 – 21 April 2009[1]) is the governor of Gyeongsangbuk-do, a province in eastern South Korea. He is a member of the Hannara party. He has served three consecutive terms in the position, beginning in 1995. His name has been mentioned as a possible future candidate for prime minister. [1]

Born in 1938 in Iseo-myeon, Cheongdo County, Gyeongsangbuk-do, he attended local elementary and middle schools, then transferred to Daegu Commercial High School, from which he graduated in 1958. He then went on to receive a BS in Economics from Yeungnam University in 1964. He began working for the Daegu and Gyeongbuk governments in 1961.

Lee has received honorary doctorates from Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law, Yeungnam University, and the Catholic University of Daegu. He was also awarded South Korea's Order of National Merit in 1988.

He died from prostate cancer in 2009.[1]

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