Hsu Kuo-yung

Hsu Kuo-yung is a Taiwanese politician and media personality who is currently the Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party since 2025. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2008, and again in 2016. Hsu served as the minister of Interior from 2018 to 2022. Later, Hsu become the host for the FTV News political program "National Bravest" from 2023 to 2025.

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Education

Hsu obtained his bachelor's degree in law from National Chung Hsing University. He then earned a Master of Arts in law from National Taiwan Ocean University.

Political careers

Hsu served as the Taipei City councillor in 2002 until his inauguration as the member of the Legislative Yuan, in 2005, of the 1st constituency of Taipei City.

2008 legislative election

Eligible voters: 280,614
Total votes cast : 171,665
Valid Votes : 169,272
Invalid Votes : 2,393

No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Ratio	Elected
1	Jhuang Wan Yun	Independent	1,684	0.99%
2	Jhang Cing Yuan	Independent	470	0.28%
3	Alex Tsai	Kuomintang	105,375	62.26%
4	Syu Jia Chen	Independent	159	0.09%
5	Ke Yi Min	Green Party Taiwan	1,580	0.93%
6	Hsu Kuo-yung	Democratic Progressive Party	60,004	35.45%

In 2016, he returned as a member of the member of the Legislative Yuan for the DPP proportional representation constituency.
In October 2016, after the resignation of the Executive Yuan spokesperson Tong Cheng-yuan, whose role was transferred to National Security Council, Hsu resigned his membership in the Legislative Yuan and succeeded Tong as the spokesperson. Chiu Tai-yuan succeeded Hsu's legislative membership.
In July 2018, then-interior minister Yeh Jiunn-rong was appointed as the new education minister. Then-spokesperson Hsu succeeded Yeh as the interior minister until his resignation in 2022 due health issues.
In August 2025, Hsu was named secretary-general of the Democratic Progressive Party.

Media careers

In December 2022, FTV News announces a new political program "National Bravest" and he will be the host starting 26th of the same month.

Other notes

When he was the spokesperson for the Executive Yuan, he was once sent to the hospital because of accidentally eating Alocasia odora, And was nicknamed "Gu Po Yong".

Controversies

Accused of having double standards on Hong Kong residents’ settlement applications and radical pro-China forces in Taiwan

During the anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong, the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan loudly expressed its support for Hong Kong people in their fight for democracy, which received some applause at the time. However, some key figures of the DPP later made some unfriendly remarks with misinformation, and some of their policies towards Hong Kong people in Taiwan also attracted some criticism. In April 2025, a scholar published an article in the academic journal International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, criticizing former Interior Minister Hsu Kuo-yung by name for being so strict on immigration and settlement applications from Hong Kong people on the one hand, and so tolerant of radical pro-China forces in Taiwan on the other, which is a contradictory approach. When many Hong Kong democrats have experience working in Hong Kong public universities, the Taiwan government should not regard the experience of working in Hong Kong public universities as a national security risk to Taiwan, just as KMT Chairman Eric Chu worked at the National Taiwan University when Tsai Ing-wen was president, but no one would regard such a relationship as Eric Chu supporting Tsai Ing-wen or the DPP.