Chang Myon (Korean: 장면) was a South Korean politician. He was vice president of the First Republic and the prime minister of the Second Republic. His English name was John Myun Chang. Under the Japanese policy of sōshi-kaimei, he adopted the Japanese-style name. His Japanese name was Tsutomu Tamaoka (玉岡勉, Tamaoka Tsutomu^?) in the late 1930s/early 1940s.

A devout Roman Catholic, he graduated from Manhattan College in New York City. He served as the Republic of Korea's first ambassador to the United States from 1949 to 1951. He was appointed second prime minister of the Republic of Korea on November 23, 1950. In 1956, he was elected vice president. After Syngman Rhee's government was ousted by a student-led pro-democracy uprising, and he was appointed prime minister of the Second Republic in 1960. At the time of the Second Republic, Korea had a parliamentary government with a prime minister.^[1] Although a president existed, Chang Myon functioned as the head of the government. Chang Myon's government ended when Park Chung-hee led a successful coup, which ended the Second Republic.

[edit] Family

He was father of John Chang-yik, who served as Roman Catholic bishop of Chuncheon and is a former president of the South Korean Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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[edit] See also

• Park Chung Hee

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