In 2002, he ran for the presidency, but he didn’t win the elections. As a representative of the Saenuri Party, Chung has recently expressed his support for nuclear armament saying: “Seoul can no longer deal with a neighboring rogue state armed with a machine gun, when it only has a piece of stone.” What’s more, he is said to have been close to South Korea’s former president, Lee Myung Bak, who has previously worked at Hyundai. As for the Hyundai conglomerate, it is now run by Mong-Joon’s billionaire brother, Chung Mong-Koo. In addition to the above, Mong-Joon is the former president of the Korea Football Association, who presently acts as honorary vice president of FIFA. A man of many interests, Chung Mong-Joon is married with four children.
