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Moon Sung-Hyun (born 1952) is a South Korean politician from the Gyeongsangnam-do province. He was a graduate of Seoul National University with a major in Business Administration.

He started work as a press and lathe operator in 1979 and by 1985 he headed the trade union of Tong-Il Heavy Machinery. He became Secretary General of the Korean Trade Union Congress in 1993, and from 1999 held the position of President of the Korean Metalworkers Federation. [1]

He was a founding member of the Democratic Labor Party, and a member of the central committee. He has been the head of the Gyeongsangnam-do province office of the DLP since 2004, and became party president in 2006. [2]

References

  1. ^ "Partial Strike at Auto Unions". JoongAng Daily. 13 April 2000. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
  2. ^ Banks, Arthur S.; Thomas C. Muller; William Overstreet (2008). Political Handbook of the World 2008. CQ Press. p.  720. ISBN  978-0-87289-528-7.