Mr. YOO Jeong-bok

   

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Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea

Elected in 2014, Jeong-bok Yoo is Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. The Mayor holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yeonsei University, an M.A. in Public Administration from Seoul National University and is on course for a Ph.D. in Political science from Yeonsei University. In addition, he was awarded the Globalized Partner Award by the European Chamber of Commerce in Korea in 2010.

Yoo started his career as a government officer in 1979, at the age of 22, by passing the senior civil servant examination. He was later elected the Mayor of Gimpo County, of Gyeonggi Province, in 1994. The youngest mayor in Korea, he was then elected the Mayor of Seo-gu, Incheon, in the following year. From 1998 to 2002, he served two terms as Mayor of Gimpo City. He is also a three term lawmaker, serving in the 17th to 19th National Assembly.

Following these positions, he served as Minister of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 2010. Then from the beginning of 2013, he was the Minister of Security and Public Administration.