Background
Eui-Geun, Lee was born on November 7, 1938 in Kyongsangbuk-do, Chongdo, Republic of Korea.
Eui-Geun, Lee was born on November 7, 1938 in Kyongsangbuk-do, Chongdo, Republic of Korea.
Diploma in Economics, Yeungnam University, 1963. Postgraduate, Yonsei University, 1991. Doctor of Philosophy in Business (honorary), Catholic University of Taegu-Hyosung, 1999.
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. 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 Bachelor of Science 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 of Korea"s Order of National Merit in 1988. He died from prostate cancer in 2009.
He is a member of the Hannara party.
Two children.