Choi Jae-cheon

Choi Jae-cheon (born November 19, 1963) is an attorney and a politician in South Korea. He was elected a member of the National Assembly from Seongdong-gu, Seoul in 2004 and was a member of the Democratic Party (Uridang) from 2004 to 2008.

After graduating in law at Chonnam National University in February 1986, he passed the 29th judicial examination in 1987 and completed the whole course of the Judicial Research and Training Institute in February 1990. He then served as a military judicial officer from 1990 to 1993. He obtained a master's degree in law at the Chonnam National University in February 1993 and a Ph.D. from the same university in February 2000.

He opened a law office at Seoul in March 1993, and founded the Han-gang Law Corporation in March 2003. After he was elected as the 17th lawmaker of Uridang (in 2004, he served as a member of the Legislation and Judiciary Committee, the Intelligence Committee, the Foreign affairs, Trade & Unification Committee, and the Food, Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries Committee. He also worked as a spokesman of a presidential candidate of the Democratic Party from October to December 2007.

Currently he is a representative of the Han-gang Law Corporation and writes a regular column on the Oh My News website.