Political scientist turned politician who served three terms as Gangjin County Governor and then in the 19th and 20th National Assemblies
| Life | 1952 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 창원 황씨 |
Hwang Ju-hong (黃柱洪, born 27 February 1952) is a politician from Gangjin, South Jeolla, and a member of the Changwon Hwang clan. Namuwiki notes that Baeksa village in Sadang-ri, Daegu-myeon, Gangjin, where he was born, is a Changwon Hwang clan village, an example of the clan's settlements in Honam. A political scientist who taught at universities, he published works such as Contemporary Politics and the State, An Introduction to Futurology and A Country with Second Chances.
He took part in politics from 1995 as an official of the National Congress for New Politics. He lost the 2004 general election but won the October 2004 Gangjin by-election for county governor and was re-elected in 2006. In 2010 he left the Democratic Party to protest party nominations for local heads and won a third term as an independent. He resigned in November 2011 to run for the Assembly and was elected for Jangheung-Gangjin-Yeongam in the 19th National Assembly.
In 2016 he was re-elected for Goheung-Boseong-Jangheung-Gangjin in the 20th Assembly and served as a People's Party supreme council member and Democratic Peace Party policy chief and secretary-general. In the Assembly he was secretary and then chairman (from July 2018) of the Agriculture, Food, Rural Affairs, Oceans and Fisheries Committee, working on farm and fishery policy. He has been listed as a director of the Association of Former Members of the National Assembly since 2023. Assessments of him differ, so the entry sticks to his public career.
In the Assembly he was secretary of the Special Committee on Budget and Accounts from June 2017 to February 2018, and in February 2018 became policy chief of the Democratic Peace Party and, from August until the following January, secretary-general. His book 'Even Gangjin County Can Change Korea' sums up his experience in county government. As he is living, this entry sticks to public career, and recent activity should be checked in official sources.
He became Gangjin County Governor in a 2004 by-election, was re-elected in 2006 and won a third term as an independent in 2010, having left his party to protest nomination of local heads.
He served in the 19th and 20th Assemblies, chairing the Agriculture and Fisheries Committee in the second half of the 20th. He changed parties several times.