Timeline
This page provides the list of members - incumbent and previous - of cabinet, or State Council, of South Korean President Park Geun-hye.
| Portfolio | Member | Term | Note | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | ||||
| President | Park Geun-hye | 25 February 2013 | 10 March 2017 | ||
| Prime Minister | Chung Hong-won | 26 February 2013 | 16 February 2015 | ||
| Lee Wan-koo | 16 February 2015 | 27 April 2015 | |||
| Hwang Kyo-ahn | 18 June 2015 | 11 May 2017 | |||
| Deputy Prime Minister of Economy Minister of Strategy and Finance | Hyun Oh-seok | 23 March 2013 | 14 July 2014 | ||
| Choi Kyoung-hwan | 15 July 2014 | 12 January 2016 | |||
| Yoo Il-ho | 13 January 2016 | 9 June 2017 | |||
| Deputy Prime Minister of Social Affairs Minister of Education | Seo Nam-su | 11 March 2013 | 16 July 2014 | ||
| Hwang Woo-yea | 8 August 2014 | 12 January 2016 | |||
| Lee Jun-sik | 13 January 2016 | 4 July 2017 | |||
| Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning | Choi Moon-ki | 17 April 2013 | 15 July 2014 | ||
| Choi Yang-hee | 16 July 2014 | 10 July 2017 | |||
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Yun Byung-se | 13 March 2013 | 18 June 2017 | ||
| Minister of Unification | Ryu Gil-jae | 11 March 2013 | 12 March 2015 | ||
| Hong Yong-pyo | 13 March 2015 | 2 July 2017 | |||
| Minister of Justice | Hwang Kyo-ahn | 11 March 2013 | 13 June 2015 | ||
| Kim Hyeon-woong | 9 July 2015 | 28 November 2016 | |||
| Minister of National Defense | Kim Kwan-jin | 4 December 2010 | 29 June 2014 | ||
| Han Min-goo | 30 June 2014 | 13 July 2017 | |||
| Minister of the Interior | Yoo Jeong-bok | 13 March 2013 | 6 March 2014 | ||
| Kang Byeong-gyu | 2 April 2014 | 15 July 2014 | |||
| Jeong Jong-seob | 16 July 2014 | 12 January 2016 | |||
| Hong Yoon-sik | 13 January 2016 | 16 June 2017 | |||
| Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism | Yoo Jin-ryong | 11 March 2013 | 16 July 2014 | ||
| Kim Jong-deok | 20 August 2014 | 4 September 2016 | |||
| Cho Yoon-sun | 5 September 2016 | 20 January 2017 | |||
| Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs | Lee Dong-phil | 11 March 2013 | 4 September 2016 | ||
| Kim Jae-soo | 5 September 2016 | 2 July 2017 | |||
| Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy | Yoon Sang-jik | 11 March 2013 | 13 January 2016 | ||
| Joo Hyeong-hwan | 13 January 2016 | 21 July 2017 | |||
| Minister of Health and Welfare | Chin Young | 11 March 2013 | 29 September 2013 | ||
| Moon Hyeong-pyo | 2 December 2013 | 26 August 2015 | |||
| Jeong Jin-yeop | 27 August 2015 | 21 July 2017 | |||
| Minister of Environment | Yoon Seong-gyu | 11 March 2013 | 5 September 2016 | ||
| Cho Gyeong-gyu | 5 September 2016 | 4 July 2017 | |||
| Minister of Employment and Labor | Bang Ha-nam | 11 March 2013 | 15 July 2014 | ||
| Lee Gi-gwon | 16 July 2014 | 24 July 2017 | |||
| Minister of Gender Equality and Family | Cho Yoon-sun | 11 March 2013 | 13 June 2014 | ||
| Kim Hee-jung | 16 July 2014 | 12 January 2016 | |||
| Kang Eun-hee | 13 January 2016 | 7 July 2017 | |||
| Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport | Seo Seung-hwan | 13 March 2013 | 13 March 2015 | ||
| Yoo Il-ho | 16 March 2015 | 10 November 2015 | |||
| Kang Ho-in | 11 November 2015 | 21 June 2017 | |||
| Minister of Oceans and Fisheries | Yoon Jin-sook | 17 April 2013 | 6 February 2014 | ||
| Lee Joo-young | 5 March 2014 | 24 December 2014 | |||
| Yoo Gi-june | 16 March 2015 | 10 November 2015 | |||
| Kim Yeong-seok | 11 November 2015 | 15 June 2017 | |||
| Minister of Public Safety and Security | Park In-yong | 19 November 2014 | 25 July 2017 | ||
Korea is a region in East Asia. Since 1945 it has been divided into two sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea. Korea consists of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and several minor islands near the peninsula. It is bordered by China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast. It is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan.
Korean is an East Asian language spoken by about 77 million people. It is the official and national language of both Koreas: North Korea and South Korea, with different standardized official forms used in each country. It is a recognised minority language in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of Jilin Province, China. It is also spoken in parts of Sakhalin, Russia and Central Asia.
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south. The war ended unofficially on 27 July 1953 in an armistice.
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. The country is bordered to the north by China and by Russia along the Amnok and Tumen rivers, and to the south by South Korea, with the heavily fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two. North Korea, like its southern counterpart, claims to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. Pyongyang is the country's capital and largest city.
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, and sharing a land border with North Korea. 25 million people, around half of the country's population of more than 51 million people, live in the Seoul Capital Area, the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the world.
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