Banker who served as president of Korea Exchange Bank and of Honam University
| Life | 1933 ~ 2021 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 흥덕 장씨 |
Jang Myeong-seon (1933-2021) was a banker and educator listed in the Korean Wikipedia roster of the Heungdeok Jang clan as the 5th president of Honam University and a president of Korea Exchange Bank. Press reports at the time of his 1994 nomination say he graduated from Jeonju High School and the Department of Commerce at Yonsei University, joined the Bank of Korea in 1956, and returned to head office after serving as head of the Korea Exchange Bank of Canada.
He was approved as bank president in June 1994, and in May 1997, when the Hanbo loan scandal erupted, he was reported to have announced over the in-house broadcast on May 7 that he would resign to take moral responsibility. He is introduced as later serving as president of Honam University, and an obituary in November 2021 confirms his death as a former president of Korea Exchange Bank and Honam University.
Beyond the Wikipedia roster and contemporary newspaper reports, no independent biography was found in this survey; exact terms, family details and university tenure were not confirmed and are not asserted. He should not be confused with the musician of the same name born in 1994.
This entry rests on the Korean Wikipedia roster of the Heungdeok Jang clan and newspaper reports from 1994, 1997 and 2021. Exact dates of taking and leaving office, the term of his Honam University presidency, family relations and burial place were not written because no independent biography was found. They can be added once better sources are confirmed.
Korea Exchange Bank specialized in foreign-exchange business, and the 1997 Hanbo affair is known as a scandal over large loans to Hanbo Steel, but the extent of his personal responsibility could not be confirmed.