Lee Choon-hee (; born 6 December 1955) is a South Korean politician who served as the mayor of Sejong City from 2014 to 2022. Previously, during the presidency of Roh Moo-Hyun, he was Vice Minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. He later moved on to become the first administrator of the National Agency for Administrative City Construction that oversaw the planning and construction of Sejong City. In his second attempt, he won the election and became Mayor of Sejong City in 2014. He won the 2018 Mayoral election with 71.3% of the votes to serve his second term as Mayor of Sejong City. Back in 1986-87 when he was with the Ministry of Construction, he attended a one-year non-degree Special Program in Urban Studies (SPURS) at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Election results Local elections Mayor of Sejong Year Elections Constituency Political party Votes (%) Remarks 2012 2012 By-election Sejong(Mayoral Elections) DUP 17,349 (37.34%) Defeated 2014 6th Iocal Election Sejong(Mayoral Elections) NPAD 36,203 (57.78%) Won 2018 7th Iocal Election Sejong(Mayoral Elections) Democratic 96,896 (71.30%) Won 2022 8th Iocal Election Sejong(Mayoral Elections) Democratic 69,995 (47.16%) Defeated
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