Cho Yang-ho
Cho Yang-ho | |
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President of the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games | |
In office July 31, 2014 – May 3, 2016 | |
IOC President | Thomas Bach |
Preceded by | Kim Jin-sun |
Succeeded by | Lee Hee-beom |
Chair of the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games | |
In office July 31, 2014 – May 3, 2016 Chair of the PyeongChang bid: September 14, 2009 – October 5, 2011 | |
Preceded by | Kim Jin-sun |
Succeeded by | Lee Hee-beom |
Personal details | |
Born | Seoul, South Korea | 8 March 1949
Died | 8 April 2019 Los Angeles County, California, U.S. | (aged 70)
Children | 3 |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 조양호 |
Hanja | 趙亮鎬 |
Revised Romanization | Jo Yang-ho |
McCune–Reischauer | Cho Yang-ho |
Cho Yang-ho (
Career
Born in
Cho was the chairman of the Hanjin Group, a transportation conglomerate. He was named to this post in February 2003 after having served as the Group's vice chairman since 1996. He was also the Director and CEO of various subsidiary companies including Hanjin Shipping, Korea Airport Service (KAS), JungSeok Enterprise Co. and Hanjin Information Systems & Telecommunications (HIST).
Cho was elected vice-chairman of The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) in 1996, and held the title of honorary consul-general to Ireland in the
In 2000, he was convicted of tax evasion.[4][5]
He was appointed the head of the Pyeong Chang 2018 Bid Committee, which won the bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2018. He later served as the president and CEO of the Pyeong Chang 2018 Organizing Committee from 2014 to 2016.[6]
In May 2018, a protest rally called for Cho to step down as chairman of Korean Air.[7] In March 2019, under the support of NPS, he was ousted from the board by shareholders amid various scandals involving him and his family members.[8] This was the first time that a founding member of a major South Korean family was forced from the board and it is considered to have been a victory for those working to restrict the powers of the chaebols.[9]
Personal life and death
Cho was the son of Cho Choong-hoon , the founder of Hanjin Group and head of Korean Air.
Cho was married, with a son,
On 8 April 2019, Cho died at a hospital in Los Angeles County, California, US, at the age of 70. He had been at the hospital since December 2018 receiving treatment for pulmonary fibrosis.[10][11][12]
Awards
- April 2005: Order of the Polar Star (highest civilian honor awarded by Mongolia to foreign citizens)
- October 2005: Moran Medal of the Order of Civil Merit(South Korea)
- January 2012: Grand Order of Mugunghwa (South Korea)
- November 2015: Grand Officier in the Legion of Honour (France)
References
- ^ a b Fred A. Bernstein, Checking In: Dressing It Up Before Tearing It Down, The New York Times, June 7, 2009, Accessed June 8, 2009.
- ^ a b "[Who Is ?] 조양호 한진그룹 회장". The Business Post (in Korean). 4 March 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Yang Ho Cho, Korean Corporate Executive, to Join Board of Trustees". USC News. March 23, 1997. Archived from the original on April 8, 2019. Retrieved February 7, 2023.
- ^ In-Soo Nam (February 11, 2015). "Former Korean Air Executive Faces Judgment Over 'Nut Rage' Incident". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Seoul Jails Embattled Chairman of Korean Air". The New York Times. November 12, 1999.
- ^ "세계는 열정적 리더 조양호를 잃었다". 매일경제 (in Korean). Retrieved 2019-11-28.
- ^ "Korean Air pilots, crew protest abuse by founding family". AP News. May 5, 2018.
- ^ Heekyong Yang; Hyunjoo Jin (2019-03-26). "State pension fund to oppose Korean Air CEO's re-election to board". Reuters. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ "Korean Air's 'nut rage' father dies at 70". 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ Park, Kyunghee (8 April 2019). "Hanjin Group's Cho Yang-ho Dies at Hospital in Los Angeles". Bloomberg. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ Choi, Ji-hee (April 8, 2019). [속보]조양호 한진그룹 회장 별세. The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). The Chosun Ilbo Company. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
- ^ "Funeral for Korean Air chief begins". The Korea Herald. 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
External links
Media related to Cho Yang-ho at Wikimedia Commons