Background
He was born in Jangseong, studied law at Marburg University (Germany) and graduated from Seoul National University.
金滉植
He was born in Jangseong, studied law at Marburg University (Germany) and graduated from Seoul National University.
Seoul National University.
He is the former Chairperson of the Board of Audit and Inspection. He passed National Judicial Examination and had since made rounds through regional courts as a judge. He served as a Supreme Court justice from 2005 to 2008.
He has served as the Chairperson of Board of Audit and Inspection from September 2008.
On 16 September 2010, he was nominated as the new prime minister. After the National Assembly"s confirmation hearing on 29 September, Kim was confirmed as the Prime Minister on October 1, 2010.
Kim quit the Bachelor of Engineering post just halfway into its four-year term. He was the second person to be appointed prime minister straight from the top Bachelor of Engineering post after Lee Hoi-chang.
Kim was exempted from being drafted for the two-year military service in 1972 by claiming to have a thyroid gland disorder.
In 1973 he was exempted again due to an "extreme imbalance" between the vision in his left and right eyes, despite having played badminton at a high level throughout his teens. These inconsistencies were one of the main topics on which his confirmation hearing for the prime ministry focused.