나경원 羅景垣
Politician · Former judge · Five-term member of the National Assembly (17th–20th and 22nd) · Floor leader of the Liberty Korea Party (2018–2019)
| Life | 1963 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 나주 나씨 |
Life & career
Na Kyung-won (born 1963) is a South Korean politician and former judge. Her clan seat is Naju. She was born on 6 December 1963 in Noryangjin-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, graduated from the Seoul National University College of Law and earned master's and doctoral degrees in international law there. She passed the bar examination in 1992 (24th class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute) and served as a judge at the Busan and Incheon District Courts and the Seoul Administrative Court from 1995 to 2002.
She entered politics by joining the Grand National Party in 2002 and was elected to the 17th National Assembly as a proportional representative in 2004. She then served in the 18th Assembly (Jung-gu, Seoul) and, after a 2014 by-election, the 19th and 20th Assemblies (Dongjak-eul, Seoul). She was party spokesperson, a member of the supreme council and chair of the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee, and was floor leader of the Liberty Korea Party from December 2018 to December 2019. She ran unsuccessfully as the Grand National Party candidate in the 2011 Seoul mayoral by-election.
She chaired the organising committee of the 2013 PyeongChang Special Olympics World Winter Games (2010–2013) and in 2022–2023 served as vice-chair of the Presidential Committee on Ageing Society and Population Policy and as Ambassador for Climate and Environment. In 2024 she was elected for Dongjak-eul in the 22nd National Assembly election, her fifth term (People Power Party).