Park Kwang-on, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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South Korean politician
Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1957
Place of Birth: Haenam County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea
Profession: politician
Nationality: South Korea
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Park Kwang-on
- Park Kwang-on (Korean: ???, born 26 March 1957) is a South Korean broadcaster and politician who is a member of National Assembly since 2014, and also one of Vice Presidents of Democratic Party since 2018.
- Before entering to politics, he worked at Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) from 1984 to 2011. Born in Haenam, Park holds a Bachelor's Degree of Sociology from Korea University, and a Master Degree of Communication Sciences from Dongguk University.
- He entered to MBC in 1984 and served various positions, including correspondent, reporter, news reader, and so on.
- He served as a correspondent in Tokyo from 1997 to 2000, and weekend news leader for MBC Newsdesk from 2000 to 2002.
- He also served as the MC of MBC 100 Minutes Debate from 2010 to 2011. Park left MBC and entered to politics in 2011.
- Prior to the legislative election in 2012, he contested DUP preselection for the MP in Haenam, Wando, and Jindo, but lost to the incumbent Kim Young-rock.
- Instead, he became a spokesperson for Moon Jae-in, DUP's presidential candidate in 2012.
- He was selected as NPAD's MP candidate for Suwon 4th constituency at the by-elections in 2014, after Kim Jin-pyo resigned in order to run as the Governor of Gyeonggi Province.
- He defeated Lim Tae-hui from Saenuri Party, and subsequently became the NPAD's sole winner in Seoul Capital Area.
- He was re-elected in 2016.
- In August 2018, he ran as a vice presidential candidate of Democratic Party and won as 2nd.On 15 October 2018, Park and his Anti-Fake News Committee requested Google Korea to remove YouTube contents that include fake news related to Gwangju Uprising, President Moon Jae-in and so on.
- However, Google rejected their request, and added that "it's not easy to catch out which one is real and fake".
- The opposition Liberty Korea Party criticised their request as "media control".
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