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Lee Wan-koo

Politician

Lee Wan-koo is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	LEE Wan Koo · Lee Wan-koo · Λι Γουάν Κου · Ли Вангу · Лі Ван Гу · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Lee Wan-koo · Λι Γουάν Κου · Ли Вангу · 李完九				[sources]
Weak alias	이완구				[sources]
Birth date	1950-06-02				[sources]
Place of birth	Cheongyang County				[sources]
Death date	2021-10-14				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	South Korea				[sources]
Country	South Korea				[sources]
Citizenship	South Korea				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Last name	Lee · Li				[sources]
Political association	Liberty Korea Party				[sources]
Website	www.leewankoo.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q12612132				[sources]
Position	Governor of South Chungcheong Province (2006-2009) · Member of the National Assembly of South Korea · Member of the National Assembly of South Korea (2013-2016) · National Assembly (member, 2012-2016) · Prime Minister of South Korea (2015-2015)				[sources]
Education	Dankook University · Michigan State University · Sungkyunkwan University				[sources]
Religion	Catholic Church				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-22	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

South Korean prime minister

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Lee Baekyeon Close Associate	spouse	1978	2021

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the National Assembly of South Korea	2013-04-25	2016-05-29
Member of the National Assembly

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,600

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata334,541

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,398

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-bce43e12-2f64-43fb-83c4-0eaeed2e8644

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