Life Summary
Kweon Seong-dong is the floor leader of the People Power Party.

With President Yoon Suk-yeol facing a potential impeachment crisis, he is working to unify the People Power Party.

He was born on April 29, 1960, in Gangneung, Gangwon-do. He graduated from Myeongryun High School in Gangneung and studied law at Chung-Ang University.

After passing the 27th bar exam, he served as a legal officer in the Navy before becoming a prosecutor. He worked as the head of the Special Investigation Division at the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office and concluded his prosecution career at the Gwangju High Prosecutors' Office before becoming an attorney at Seojeong Law Firm.

During the Lee Myung-bak administration, he served as the legal affairs secretary in the presidential office. In the 2009 by-election, he ran as the candidate for the Grand National Party in Gangneung and was elected. He has since been elected five consecutive times as the representative for Gangneung in the National Assembly, up to the 22nd National Assembly.

During the impeachment trial of President Park Geun-hye, he served as the head of the impeachment prosecution committee, representing the National Assembly.

He left the Saenuri Party to join the Bareun Party but later returned to the Liberty Korea Party (now the People Power Party). In the 21st general election, after failing to secure a party nomination, he ran as an independent, won, and later rejoined the party.

Amid the political turmoil following President Yoon Suk-yeol’s December 3 emergency martial law declaration, he was elected as the floor leader of the People Power Party.

As a 40-year-long friend and political partner of President Yoon Suk-yeol, he is considered a key figure among the so-called "Yoon core associates" (Yoon Haek-gwan).

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