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Lee Wan-koo
South Korean prime minister / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lee Wan-koo (Hangul: 이완구; Hanja: 李完九; 16 July 1950 – 14 October 2021) was a South Korean politician. He was a member of the Liberty Korea Party. Lee was born in Cheongyang County, then-First Republic of Korea.
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From 2006 until 2009, he was the Governor of the South Chungcheong Province. From 1996 until 2004 and again from 2013 until 2016, he was a member of the National Assembly. For a short time in 2015, he was the Prime Minister of South Korea during the Park Geun-hye cabinet.
In early 2010, Lee was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and recovered in 2013.[1] However the cancer returned in 2016 and Lee died from the disease on 14 October 2021 in Seoul at the age of 71.[2]