Moon Kook-hyun
Moon Kook-hyun is a South Korean politician who served as the leader of the Creative Korea Party. Before entering politics, he was a well-known business manager and civil environmental campaigner in South Korea.
Born in Seoul, Moon studied English language at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, graduating with a BA in 1972, then took a postgraduate course in Business Administration at the Seoul National University.
Business career
Moon began his career at, a company manufacturing paper and woven fibre products. In 1983, he spent a year in the United States, taking some new management concepts. On his return, he developed the concept of "environmental management", focusing on digital printing technologies and the use of recycled paper.In 1995, Moon became Chief Executive Officer of Yuhan-Kimberly. In 1996, Moon was appointed committee director of the U.N. Environment Korea Development Organization. Faced with a financial crisis in 1997, he developed a new shift system where workers worked twelve-hours shifts for four days running, then took four days off.
2007 presidential election
In August 2007, Moon resigned from Yuhan-Kimberly to run in the 2007 South Korean presidential election. In October, he formed the Creative Korea Party, with an anti-corruption, pro-environmentalist program, gaining a bit of support from liberal voters who supported the Participatory Government, conservative voters who wanted to change the government and liked a similar 'business leader' portfolio but disliked Lee Myung-bak, and from the labor movement.In the election, Moon won 5.8% of the votes for fourth place. Moon is a Roman Catholic.