Lee Jun-seok

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The Honourable Lee Jun-seok MP
이준석
Leader of the New Reform Party
In office 20 January 2024 – 19 May 2024
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Heo Eun-ah
Leader of the People Power Party
In office 11 June 2021 – 9 August 2022[1]
Deputy	Han Ki-ho (Secretary-General)
Preceded by	Hwang Kyo-ahn Kim Gi-hyeon (interim)
Succeeded by	Joo Ho-young (interim)
Member of the National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 May 2024
Preceded by	Lee Won-wook
Constituency	Hwaseong B
Personal details
Born	(1985-03-31) 31 March 1985 (age 39) Seongdong, Seoul, South Korea
Citizenship	South Korean
Political party	New Reform Party[2]
Other political affiliations	GNP (2011–2012) Saenuri (2012–2016) Bareun (2017–2018) Bareunmirae (2018–2020) People Power (2020–2023) Independent (2023–2024)
Alma mater	Harvard University (BA)
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Nickname	Andy Lee

Jun-seok Andy Lee (Korean: 이준석; born 31 March 1985) is a South Korean politician who served as party leader of the conservative New Reform Party since January 2024.

Lee entered politics as a relatively young member of the Park Geun-hye presidential administration, during which he served as one of the 11-member Grand National Party's (later renamed Saenuri Party) Executive Leadership Council, the youngest member ever to sit on the Council.^[3] After the impeachment of Park in 2016, he left the Saenuri Party and joined the centre-right conservative minor Bareun Party, of which he served as one of the party's Supreme Council members. The Bareun Party would merge into the Bareunmirae Party, and Lee's faction of that party later merged with the majority right-wing conservative Party to form the current People Power Party.^[4]

In June 2021, the conservative People Power Party voted to select Lee Jun-seok as its leader, making him the youngest person in South Korean history to lead the main conservative bloc.^[5] As leader of the People Power Party, Lee led his party to victory in the 2022 presidential election and the 2022 local elections. He has been noted for his staunch anti-feminism and support from South Korean idaenam.^[6][7]

On 8 July 2022, Lee was given a six-month suspension from the People Power Party as the result of a bribery and prostitution scandal.^[8] Lee was officially removed from party leadership on 9 August.^[1] On 20 September, Police decided not to refer Lee to prosecution over sexual bribery charges.^[9] On 7 October, Lee's party suspension was extended by a year by the party's ethics committee.^[10] On 13 October, police decided not to refer Lee to prosecution over evidence destruction.^[11]

His suspension from the People Power Party was removed on 2 November 2023, together with 3 other politicians' suspensions.^[12] Since then, he has left the People Power Party to establish a new party, the New Reform Party.