Pyo Chang-won
Pyo Chang-won | |
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| File:Pyo Chang-won Pandora 161207.png | |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office May 30, 2016 – May 29, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency Established |
| Succeeded by | Lee Tan-hee |
| Constituency | Gyeonggi Yongin D |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 3, 1966 Pohang, South Korea |
| Party | Democratic Party of Korea |
| Alma mater | Korea National Police University University of Exeter |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 표창원 |
| Hanja | 表蒼園 |
| RR | Pyo Changwon |
| MR | P'yo Ch'angwŏn |
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Early life
[edit | edit source]In 2013, a journalist accused Pyo of plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation, and Pyo in return threatened the journalist with legal action.[1] Later, with a letter from his doctoral advisor, Pyo denied the allegations and claimed the alleged plagiarisms were minor mistakes in citations.[2]Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. In 2016, additional plagiarism was found in his doctoral dissertation, but Pyo's representatives said in response that the issue of Pyo's had already been addressed, and there is no further comment to be made.[3]
Political career
[edit | edit source]Pyo announced his candidacy for the 2016 parliamentary election, saying that he wanted "to realize justice through politics".[4] He was elected to the National Assembly as a member of the Democratic Party.[5]
In November and December 2016, Pyo made several comments accusing supporters of Park Geun-hye to have mindsets of group rapists, based on neutralization theory.[6][7][8] At the same time, he released a list of politicians who opposed President Park's impeachment, now known as the Pyo Changwon List.[9]Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1. This was criticized by his opponents as a direct act against representative democracy,[10] an act of political terrorism,[11] and an act against the right to vote as provided by the Constitution of South Korea.[12]
On January 20, 2017, Pyo hosted a galleria at the parliament which included artworks satirizing Park.[13] One such artwork, the Dirty Sleep (Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1.), depicted a naked Park and was criticized by women's rights organizations.[14] Pyo was put under investigation by the Ethics Committee of the Democratic Party of Korea, and was banned from holding a post within the party for six months.[15]
Post-political life
[edit | edit source]Pyo decided not to run in the 2020 election, instead opening the Pyo Chang-won Institute of Crime Science while also hosting a radio show at MBC and current affairs program Scandal Supervisor on JTBC. He left the program in December 2020.
Filmography
[edit | edit source]Television shows
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| 2021 | Earth in | SBS Plus | Host | [16] |
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