This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee.

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

Lee Eui-geun (born 1938) 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.

[edit] Notes

1. ^  "차기총리 한나라소속 이의근 경북지사?". Chosun Ilbo (Korean ed.) March 6 2006. http://www.chosun.com/politics/news/200603/200603060460.html. Retrieved 2006-03-11. 

[edit] See also

• List of Korea-related topics
• List of Koreans
• Politics of South Korea

[edit] External links

• Gyeongbuk provincial website, containing English-language profile of the governor