Hwang Kyo-ahn
acting president of South Korea from 2016 to 2017 (born 1957)
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Acting · Yongsan, Seoul, South Korea
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- The Day, December 3, 2024 'Fabricated Insurrection, Hidden Truth' — Self2026
- SNL Korea — Self2021
- President′s 7 Hours — Self (archive footage)2019
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- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
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- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,413x
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Hwang Kyo-ahn (Korean: 황교안; born 15 April 1957) is a South Korean politician and prosecutor who served as the acting president of South Korea from 2016 to 2017 and as the prime minister of South Korea from 2015 to 2017.
Hwang served as minister of justice from 2013 to 2015 under President Park Geun Hye. He played a leading role in the investigation into the 2013 South Korean sabotage plot, which led to the conviction of Lee Seok-ki and the dissolution of the Unified Progressive Party. In May 2015, he was nominated by President Park Geun-hye for the position of Prime Minister of South Korea and assumed office on 18 June 2015.
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