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Moon Hyung-pyo (born October 11, 1956 - ) is a South Korean economist who served as Minister of Health and Welfare and Chairman of the National Pension Service. Currently, he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in the first and second trials in connection with the Park Geun Hye-Choi Soon-sil gate.

Life
He was born in Seoul on October 11, 1956. He graduated from Seoul High School in 1975 and earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. In 1998, he served as a social welfare administrator for the presidential secretariat. The Korea Development Institute studied public economics such as changes in the distribution structure, public pensions, and welfare expenditures, and served as the head of the welfare policy research department in the same year.

In 2013, he was appointed as a private member of the Public Welfare and Economy Division of the Presidential Advisory Council and a member of the National Tax Administration Reform Committee of the National Tax Service.

He was appointed Minister of Health and Welfare from December 2, 2013, but was pointed out that he was professional in the pension and welfare fields, but lacked understanding of health and medical care. It seems that he got to know then-President Park Geun Hye, who appointed Minister Moon Hyung-pyo, through the GNP's pension-related task force when he was a lawmaker of Park Geun Hye in 2004. He resigned on August 26, 2015 for failing to properly respond to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome epidemic in Korea in 2015, and took office as chairman of the National Pension Service on December 31 of the same year, but there was controversy over not receiving any disciplinary action regarding the MERS outbreak.

Choi Kwang, then chairman of the National Pension Service, opposed Hong Wan-sun's second term as head of the fund management division, and Moon Hyung-pyo, then minister of health and welfare, ordered Hong Wan-sun, who was head of the fund management division of the National Pension Service, to pressure him. On December 31, 2016, Special Prosecutor Park Young-soo, who was in charge of the Park Geun Hye-Choi Soon-sil gate investigation, arrested Moon Hyung-pyo for abuse of authority and obstruction of exercise of rights. The special prosecutor also pointed to Ahn Jong-beom, former senior presidential secretary for economic affairs, as the person who gave him the instructions. He said in a prosecution investigation, "Just before stepping down from the minister of welfare, President Park Geun Hye promised to make the chairman of the National Pension Service."

The 21st Criminal Division of the Seoul Central District Court sentenced former Minister Moon to two and a half years in prison on charges of abuse of authority and obstruction of exercising his rights (2017 Kohap 34). Former Minister Moon appealed against the first trial, but the Seoul High Court's Criminal Division 10 (Judge Lee Jae-young) sentenced Moon to two and a half years in prison, just like the first trial (2017 No1886).

educational background

 * ~ 1975 Seoul High School
 * ~ ~ Bachelor of Economics, Yonsei University, 1980
 * ~ 1983: Master of Economics, Graduate School of Yonsei University
 * ~ 1989: a graduate doctor of economics, University of Pennsylvania

Career

 * 1998 Presidential Secretary for Social Welfare
 * 2002: University of California, Berkeley School Guest Research Institute
 * December 2002 Korea Development Institute Finance and Welfare Team Leader
 * 15th President of the Korean Society for Social Security from January 2007 to December 2007
 * Director of the Ministry of Finance and Social Development at the Korea Development Institute
 * Director, Economic Information Center, Korea Development Institute
 * August 2011 to August 2012 Guest Research Institute, University of Southern California, USA
 * Chairman of the National Pension System Development Committee from October 2012 to November 2013
 * Members of the Public Welfare and Economy Subcommittee of the National Economic Advisory Council from May 2013 to November 2013
 * From July 2013 to November 2013, Director of the Financial Welfare Policy Research Department of the Korea Development Institute
 * Senior Research Fellow, Senior Economist Group, Korea Development Institute, July 2013 - November 2013
 * Member of the National Tax Service's National Tax Administration Reform Committee in October 2013
 * 51st Minister of Health and Welfare from December 2013 to August 2015
 * In September 2015, the invited researcher of the Ministry of Finance and Welfare Policy at the Korea Development Institute
 * December 2015 to February 21, 2017 Chairman of the National Pension Service

Books

 * 《ECONOMIC CRISIS AND ITS SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES》 2000
 * A Study on Pension Reform: A Plan to Support Insurance Premiums to Mitigate Blind Spot, 2012