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Han Kuo-yu

In this Chinese name, the family name is Han.

Han Kuo-yu (Chinese: 韓國瑜, born 17 June 1957), also known as Daniel Han,[2][3][4] is a Taiwanese politician and retired Republic of China Army officer who is the current president of the Legislative Yuan.

The Honorable[1]
Han Kuo-yu
MLY
韓國瑜
Official portrait, 2024
13th President of the Legislative Yuan
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2024
Vice PresidentJohnny Chiang
Preceded byYou Si-kun
Member of the Legislative Yuan
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 February 2024
ConstituencyParty-list (KMT)
In office
1 February 1993 – 31 January 2002
Constituency
See list
2nd Mayor of Kaohsiung
In office
25 December 2018 – 12 June 2020*
Deputy
See list
Preceded byHsu Li-ming (acting)
Succeeded byYang Ming-jou (acting)
Other offices
4th Head of Kaohsiung Chapter of the Kuomintang
In office
7 September 2017 – 19 January 2019
ChairmanWu Den-yih
Preceded byHuang Po-lin
Succeeded byChuang Chi-wang
4th General Manager of the Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation
In office
1 January 2013 – 31 March 2017
MayorHau Lung-pin
Ko Wen-je
Preceded byChang Ching-liang
Succeeded byWu Ying-ning
Taipei County Councilor
In office
1 March 1990 – 31 January 1993
ConstituencyZhonghe District
Personal details
Born (1957-06-17) 17 June 1957 (age 67)
Taipei County, Taiwan
Political partyKuomintang
SpouseLee Chia-fen
Children3
EducationRepublic of China Military Academy
Soochow University (BA)
National Chengchi University (MA)
Military service
Branch/service Republic of China Army
Years of service1975–1981
RankMajor
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese韓國瑜
Simplified Chinese韩国瑜
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHán Guóyú
Bopomofoㄏㄢˊ ㄍㄨㄛˊㄩˊ
Wade–GilesHan² Kuo²-yü²
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingHon4 Gwok3 jyu4
Southern Min
Hokkien POJHân Kok-jû
*Yeh Kuang-shih was acting mayor from 16 October 2019 – 11 January 2020.

Han graduated from the Republic of China Military Academy, Soochow University, and National Chengchi University. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 2002, representing a portion of Taipei County for three terms. He later became general manager of Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation. In 2017, Han contested the Kuomintang chairmanship, losing to Wu Den-yih.

Han was elected Mayor of Kaohsiung in November 2018, and became the first Kuomintang politician since Wu in 1998 to hold the office. He was the KMT candidate for the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election, but lost to Tsai Ing-wen. On 6 June 2020, Han was recalled from his position as mayor and officially stepped down on 12 June. He returned to the Legislative Yuan after winning a party-list seat in the 2024 legislative election. Han took office as member and was elected the president of the Legislative Yuan on 1 February 2024.

Early life, education, and military career

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Han Kuo-yu was born in Taiwan to parents from Henan,[5] on 17 June 1957.[6][7] He attended National Banqiao Primary School [zh], followed by Paul Hsu Senior High School [zh], Hai-Shan High School [zh], and Heng Yee Catholic High School [zh].[8][9] Han studied English literature at Soochow University after graduating from the Republic of China Military Academy, and earned a Master of Arts in East Asian studies from the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies of National Chengchi University in 1988.[10][11][12] His master's degree thesis was titled A Look at the Negotiations during the 'Two Airlines Uprising' from the Perspective of the Communist Party of China's (United Front) Strategy (從中共「對臺統戰」策略看兩航談判).[13] Prior to running for public office, Han worked as a school principal.[14]

Early political career

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Han won the Zhonghe seat on the Taipei County Council in 1990, and served until 1993, when he took office as a member of the Legislative Yuan. Han was the founding leader of what became the New Taipei City Hakka Association, serving from 1992 to 1998.[15]

Legislative Yuan

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He was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1992 and remained in office until 2002, serving for a time as Kuomintang (KMT) caucus leader.[16] As a legislator, he became known for his combative personality,[17] most famously assaulting, and landing in hospital in the 1990s, the opposition legislator and future president Chen Shui-bian in the Legislative Yuan on one occasion.[18] For their support of the construction of the Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant, Han, Hung Hsiu-chu, Chan Yu-jen [zh], and Lin Chih-chia were targeted with an unsuccessful recall referendum.[19] Subsequently, Han lost reelection to the legislature in 2001.[20] He then served as deputy mayor of Zhonghe under mayor Chiu Chui-yi [zh].[21][22]

Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation

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After leaving politics, Han lived in Yunlin County, in his wife's hometown,[23] where he became friendly with former Yunlin County Magistrate Chang Jung-wei [zh]. Due to their friendly relationship, Han was believed to be Chang's ally.[24][25]

In January 2013, with Chang's support, Han became the general manager of Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation (TAPMC), a corporation jointly owned by Taipei City and the Council of Agriculture. The TAPMC manages the produce demands of the greater Taipei area.[26][27]

2017 KMT chairmanship election

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In January 2017, Han resigned from his position as president of TAPMC to enter that year's Kuomintang chairmanship election.[28][29] He finished fourth in a field of six candidates. Following his loss to Wu Den-yih, Han served as the Kuomintang's Kaohsiung chapter director.[30]

Mayor of Kaohsiung

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Han's campaign in Fengshan District, Kaohsiung on 17 November 2018.

In May 2018, Han won the Kuomintang's Kaohsiung mayoral primary, defeating rival Chen Yi-min, and was subsequently nominated as the party's mayoral candidate.[30]

During the initial campaign stage, he received almost no support from the party as he was seen as unlikely to win the election due to the traditionally deep-rooted Democratic Progressive Party presence in Kaohsiung. However, his popularity soared within months during the campaign period,[31][10][32] a phenomenon which has been termed "Hánliú" (韓流). The main focus of his campaign was on the air pollution and economic growth of Kaohsiung.[33][34]

Despite his claims of having minimal support for his Kaohsiung election, accordingly to paperwork filed with the Central Election Commission, Han received and spent the most compared to the other mayoral races in Taiwan. Campaign contributions totaled NT$129,149,779 (US$4,304,992) and expenses totaled NT$140,873,536 (US$4,695,784). The amounts exceeded the NT$88,841,000 cap placed by election rules.[35]

Han defeated Chen Chi-mai in local elections held on 24 November 2018, and became the first mayor of Kaohsiung affiliated with the Kuomintang since Wu Den-yih left office in 1998.[36] The success of the KMT during the elections has been attributed to Han's popularity.[37]

 
Vote share by district in the 2018 Kaohsiung mayoral election.

The day after he won the mayoral election, Han invited Foxconn to invest in Kaohsiung.[38] In addition, he sought fluent English speakers to fill vacancies in his administration pertaining to promotion and public relations.[39] Han expressed support for the 1992 consensus and stated that he would form committees dedicated to Cross-Strait relations.[40] On 3 December 2018, it was announced that former Transportation and Communications minister Yeh Kuang-shih would be Han's deputy mayor. Lee Shu-chuan was appointed as a second deputy mayor on 15 December 2018.[41]

Han was inaugurated on 25 December 2018. During the ceremony, he promised to promote Kaohsiung products, facilitate the inflow of money to the city, pay off the city's debt and invest in future generations via bilingual education.[42]

On 24 February 2019, Han began a five-day trip to Malaysia and Singapore to discuss business and tourism opportunities for Kaohsiung, his first official overseas visit as mayor.[43]

In March 2019, Han and a delegation of municipal officials visited Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China for a seven-day trip to discuss agriculture. Members of the delegation included Han and his wife, deputy mayor Yeh Kuang-shih, and ten Kaohsiung City Councilors.[44] In Hong Kong, Han met with Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam at the Government House, followed by a visit to the Hong Kong Liaison Office, where he met with the office director Wang Zhimin, making him the first ROC politician to ever visit the liaison office,[45][46][44][47] a move that was criticized by the opposition DPP as promoting unification under "one country, two systems."[48] In Macau, he met with the Macau Chief Executive Fernando Chui to discuss public health and sign a trade agreement between the two cities.[49] He also visited the Macau Liaison Office and had a dinner with the liaison office's director Fu Ziying.[50] In Shenzhen, Han met with Taiwan Affairs Office Director Liu Jieyi and Shenzhen Communist Party Secretary Wang Weizhong.[51] The total value of trade deals signed during Han's visit totaled NT$5.2 billion.[52]

On 9 April 2019, Han embarked on a nine-day visit to the United States, where he visited Boston, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley. During the trip, Han sought to encourage American investment in Kaohsiung. He met with Congresspeople Ted Lieu and Judy Chu and also Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Nina Hachigian.[53] Han also gave talks at Harvard University and Stanford University.[54]

Recall

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Main article: 2020 Kaohsiung mayoral recall election

Han returned to Kaohsiung and resumed mayoral duties on 13 January 2020.[55] On 17 January 2020, a petition to recall Han cleared the first threshold with 28,560 signatures, exceeding the required 1% of the electorate (22,814 signatures).[56] On 7 April, the city's electoral commission verified that 377,662 of approximately 406,000 signatures collected in the second phase of the recall petition were valid, clearing the threshold of 10% of the electorate, setting the stage for a recall vote in June.[57][58] Though he urged his supporters to boycott the vote, he was recalled with 40% of voters turning out, and 97% voting in favor of the recall.[59][60][61]

2020 presidential campaign

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Soon after Han took office as mayor, support for Han as a candidate for the 2020 Taiwan presidential election began to build.[62][63] Han initially refused calls for him to contest the election,[64] and later stated that he would not participate in the 2019 Kuomintang presidential primary.[65][66] A week after that statement, Han said that he would abide by Kuomintang's primary process, opening the door for his potential nomination as a presidential candidate.[67] On 5 June 2019, Han announced that he would stand in the Kuomintang presidential primary.[68][69] Han registered for the primary three days after his announcement.[70] Han scheduled five rallies for the primary, with the last one held on 8 July in Hsinchu City.[71] On 15 July, he won the Kuomintang presidential primary[72][73] and was formally nominated as the Kuomintang presidential candidate on 28 July 2019.[74][75]

Han held a presidential election rally on 8 September 2019 at Xingfu Shuiyang Park (Chinese:幸福水漾公園) in Sanchong District, New Taipei,[71] with former president Ma Ying-jeou and KMT chairperson Wu Den-yih in attendance. Han conveyed four main points of his campaign platform, which were to defend the Republic of China, to love Chinese culture, to uphold freedom and democracy and to never forget the struggling people.[76] He began a three-month leave of absence despite having serving only six months of his term to focus on his presidential campaign, delegating mayoral duties to Yeh Kuang-shih from 15 October 2019.[77] Some media outlet dubbed Han the "Taiwanese Trump" for his outspoken attitude and similar conservative political positions to American president Donald Trump.[78] On 11 November 2019, Han officially picked former premier Chang San-cheng as his running mate for the election.[79] The Kuomintang ticket completed registration for the election on 18 November 2019.[80][81] Han and Chang finished second in the presidential election to incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen and her running mate William Lai.[82][83]

President of the Legislative Yuan

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Han presenting the Seal of Honour to Lai Ching-te during his presidential inauguration

In November 2023, Han was ranked first on the Kuomintang's proportional representation party list for the 2024 legislative election.[84] Weeks before taking office in the 11th Legislative Yuan, Han declared interest in contesting the speakership.[85][86] Han won the Yuan President election with 54 votes.[87]

Public image

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Philanthropy

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Han is an active participant in philanthropy. After his unsuccessful presidential bid in 2020, Han donated NT$6 million of campaign funds to charity organizations, including NT$1 million to his running mate’s foundation.[88] Following his recall as Kaohsiung mayor, he appeared at a meet-and-greet announce his appointment as president of the Dianliang Foundation and to promote his new book, which aims to improve bilingual education in elementary schools and provide support to elderly citizens.[89][90] The foundation was commended by the ROC Veteran Affairs Council for its services provided to ROCAF veterans.[91][89]

Violent incidents and alleged ties to organized crime

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Han committed several violent acts in his tenure as Taipei County councillor and then Legislative Yuan member. On 16 November 1990, during then-Taipei County magistrate You Ching's presentation, Han threw a thermos at You then ran toward the podium and attempted to choke him.[92] In 1993, Han assaulted Democratic Progressive Party legislator and future president Chen Shui-bian, leaving Chen hospitalized for three days. Han later apologized for the violent act.[93]

In 1993, following a shooting at a gang leader’s funeral, Han accompanied a gang member who claimed to turn himself in to a police station. Investigators found that the gang member was taking the blame for someone else and obstructing justice. Han denied he had any culpability in the case.[94]

Days leading up to the 2020 election to recall Han as Kaohsiung mayor, National Police Agency director-general Chen Chia-chin stated that there were rumors that gang members were expected to be at voting stations to intimidate and suppress voters. The Kaohsiung Police confirmed there was information about the alleged voter suppression. However, Chen, in a separate press conference, noted that the alleged involvement with organized crime was not substantiated by evidence and was a rumor.[95] In response, Han suggested that the National Police Agency form an investigative task force.[96] No evidence suggesting Han's involvement were reported following the recall; some sources criticized DPP's abuse of executive powers in its attempt to obstruct the voting process.[97]

Personal life

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Han is married to Lee Chia-fen, with whom he raised three children.[5] In January 2022, Han published a collection of short stories and established the Light Up Foundation, a charity.[98]

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Preceded byas Acting mayor Mayor of Kaohsiung
2018–2020 		Succeeded byas Acting mayor
Preceded by President of the Legislative Yuan
2024–present 		Incumbent
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Preceded by Kuomintang nominee for President of the Republic of China
2020 		Succeeded by
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