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Taiwanese politician (born 1955)

Jimmy KuoKuo Chun-mingMLY
郭俊銘
Kuo in October 2014
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office1 February 2002 – 31 January 2008
Constituency Taichung County
Personal details
Born (1955-10-17) 17 October 1955 (age 69)Taichung, Taiwan
Political party Democratic Progressive Party
Education National Cheng Kung University (BS)

Jimmy Kuo (Chinese: 郭俊銘; born 17 October 1955) is a Taiwanese politician.

Kuo graduated from the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University and earned a degree from National Cheng Kung University.[1]

Kuo served one term on the Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council.[2] He left to lead the Democratic Progressive Party's organization and development department.[3] Within the DPP, Kuo was affiliated with the New Tide faction.[4] In 2001, Kuo was elected to the Legislative Yuan for the first time. He was reelected in 2004. During his legislative tenure, Kuo was often critical of the National Communications Commission.[5][6]

Kuo lost to Yang Chiung-ying in the 2008 legislative elections,[7] and was defeated by Johnny Chiang in 2012.[8] By 2016, Kuo was chairman of the Taiwan Water Corporation.[9] He resigned from Taiwater in January 2019.[10]

  1. ^ "Kuo Chun-ming (5)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Kuo Chun-ming (6)". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  3. ^ Lin, Chieh-yu (21 October 1999). "DPP politicians descend on Yunlin". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  4. ^ Huang, Joyce (21 March 2001). "DPP targets its own for vote selling". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  5. ^ Shan, Shelley (3 April 2007). "Lee Tao resigns as TVBS chief, slams media critics". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  6. ^ Wang, Flora (3 October 2006). "DPP walks out of committee meeting". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Legislative elections and referendums" (PDF). Taipei Times. 13 January 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  8. ^ Shan, Shelley (15 January 2012). "2012 ELECTIONS: Pan-greens make gains in legislature". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  9. ^ Su, Chin-feng; Chin, Jonathan (22 July 2016). "No increase to water rates for a year". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  10. ^ Pan, Jason (24 January 2019). "Taiwater head quits over extramarital affair report". Taipei Times. Retrieved 24 January 2019.

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