Economist and bureaucrat; 38th Minister of Finance, 2nd Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy; president of Pusan National and Ajou universities
| Life | 1941 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 고령 박씨 |
Park Jae-yoon (born 1941) is a South Korean economic bureaucrat and university professor of the Goryeong Park clan. He was born on 25 July 1941 in Busan, graduated from Busan High School, earned bachelor's and master's degrees in economics at Seoul National University and a doctorate in economics at Indiana University in the United States.
He became a professor in the Seoul National University economics department in 1971, studying finance, and served as president of the Korean Financial Association in 1989 and director of the Korea Institute of Finance in 1991. From February 1993 to October 1994 he was the president's senior secretary for economic affairs.
In October 1994 he became the 38th Minister of Finance and, with the government reorganization that December, the second Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, serving until December 1996. He was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee in 1997, a professor at Soonchunhyang University in 1998, president of Pusan National University in 1999, and president of Ajou University and chair of the Gyeonggi regional innovation council in 2004.
A Seoul National University professor studying finance, he became known as a financial-policy expert as head of the Korean Financial Association and the Korea Institute of Finance, and entered government in 1993 as senior secretary for economic affairs.
After his ministerial posts he served on the Monetary Policy Committee and as a professor and university president. He is listed as independent and classified among the cabinet ministers of the Kim Young-sam government.
Understood to be living.
Family details are not covered.