Tax official turned politician; Haeundae District Mayor and National Assembly member
| Life | 1948년 ~ 2023년 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 분성 배씨 |
Bae Deok-gwang (裵德光, 1948-2023) was a politician from the tax service who served as mayor of Haeundae District in Busan and as a member of the National Assembly. Wikipedia's person card lists his seat as Bunseong. Born in Dong-myeon, Changwon, South Gyeongsang, in 1948, he graduated from Masan Commercial High School, then studied at Dong-A University, earned a master's at Pusan National University and a doctorate in business administration at Kyungsung University.
He began work at the Jung-Busan Tax Office in 1967 and served 32 years as a tax official, including head of a division at Gyeongju Tax Office, special investigator at the Busan Regional Tax Office, administrator at the Blue House presidential secretariat (1993-1996), chief of Chuncheon Tax Office and a division head at the Seoul Regional Tax Office; afterward he worked as a tax accountant and chaired the 17th Busan Tax Accountants Association. Elected Haeundae mayor in 2004, he served three terms and in 2012-2013 was representative chairman of the national association of mayors, county heads and district heads.
He won a July 2014 by-election to become a 19th National Assembly member (Haeundae-Gijang A), was re-elected in 2016 in Haeundae B and resigned in January 2018. He wrote Haeundae Effect (2013). Wikipedia records that he was detained and indicted in 2017 for bribery connected to approvals for the Haeundae LCT project, and that in May 2018 the Supreme Court finalized a sentence of five years in prison, a fine of 100 million won and a forfeiture of 91 million won. He died on 24 February 2023.
Haeundae District mayor from June 2004 to March 2014 (three terms), representative chairman of the national association of local heads from July 2012 to March 2014, elected to the 19th National Assembly in July 2014, to the 20th in May 2016, and resigned in January 2018. In the Assembly he sat on the Future Creation, Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee and its successor.
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