Lee Hae-chan

Lee Hae- chan ( * 10 July 1952 in Cheongyang, Chungcheongnam -do) is a South Korean politician.

Lee was in the 1980s student at Seoul National University and was involved in during his studies and then in the South Korean democracy movement. Since his first election to the National Assembly in 1988, he was re-elected four times - one after the other for the Democratic Party, the Millennium Party and the Uri Party. He was in 1998-1999, Minister of Education in the government of Kim Dae -jung. After the elections in April 2004, he was nominated by President Roh Moo -hyun for the post of Prime Minister and introduced as the successor of Goh Kun in the office on 30 June 2004. On 14 March 2006 he had to resign because of the so-called golf game scandal. He had played despite a nationwide strike of railwaymen golf with friends, rather than to take care of this problem. In June 2012, he was elected Chairman of the United Democratic Party. On May 4, 2013 he was replaced Kim Han -gil in this office in.