Politician and sports leader; five-term lawmaker and New Korea Democratic Party president
| Life | 1922 ~ 2004 |
| Era | 현대 (대한민국) |
| Clan | 영월 신씨 |
Shin Do-hwan (辛道煥, 1922–2004) was a South Korean politician and sports administrator of the Yeongwol Shin clan; his pen name was Changbeom. Born on 25 May 1922 in Daegu, North Gyeongsang, he graduated from Daegu's Keisung Higher Common School and, in 1943, from the law department of Meiji University in Japan.
He was first elected to the National Assembly in 1958 as an independent for Daegu A. He returned in 1971 as a New Democratic Party proportional member, won Daegu's Dong–Nam district for the New Democratic Party in 1973 and 1978, and won Daegu Nam–Suseong for the New Korea Democratic Party in 1985, serving five terms in all. He sat on the party executive of the Liberal, New Democratic and New Korea Democratic parties, and in 1988 served briefly as acting president and then, until April, as president of the New Korea Democratic Party.
He was also long active in sport: a member of the Korean Olympic Committee from 1979, president of the Pan-Pacific Judo Union from 1980, and in 1993 head of the association of high-ranking judoka, adviser to the Korea Sports Council and chairman of a sports veterans' association. In 2000 he received an honorary 10th dan in judo for his contribution to Korean judo. In 1991 he published a memoir, Even If You Gave Me the World.
He has appeared as a character in TV dramas about the links between postwar street gangs and politics, played by different actors in KBS's Mupungjidae (1988), MBC's The Fourth Republic (1995) and SBS's Rustic Period (2003). He died in Seoul on 24 March 2004. Because the Wikipedia article on him is flagged as needing citations, details of his career are best checked against National Assembly records.