Cho Won-jin

{{Short description|South Korean politician}}

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| name = Cho Won-jin

| image = 조원진대표.png

| image_size = 220px

| caption =

| native_name = {{nobold|조원진}}

| native_name_lang = ko

| office = President of Our Republican Party

| term_start = 27 June 2019

| predecessor = Himself (as the President of Korean Patriots' Party)

|term_end =

|alongside = Hong Moon-jong (until 10 February 2020)

|successor = Party dissolved

| office2 = President of the Korean Patriots' Party

| term_start2 = 8 July 2017

| term_end2 = 27 June 2019

| predecessor2 = Position established

| successor2 = Position abolished (himself as the President of Our Republic)

| office1 = Member of the National Assembly

| term_start1 = 30 May 2008

| term_end1 =

| constituency1 = Dalseo District

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|1|7|df=yes}}

| party = Our Republic

| alma_mater = Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Yeungnam University

| module = {{Infobox Korean name/auto|child=yes

|hangul = %조원진

|hanja = 趙源震

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| otherparty = Korean Patriots' Party (2017–2019)
Saenuri Party (2017)
Liberty Korea Party (until 2017)

}}

Cho Won-jin (born 7 January 1959) is a South Korean conservative pro-Park Geun-hye politician who served as the break-away Saenuri Party's presidential candidate in the 2017 presidential election. He had been a member of the Liberty Korea Party prior to that, representing Dalseo District, Daegu in the National Assembly since first being elected in the 2008 elections.{{cite news|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170410000683|title=Park loyalist hints at presidential run with revived Saenuri Party|newspaper=The Korea Herald|date=10 April 2017|access-date=22 August 2017}}{{cite news|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160401000776|last=Yeo|first=Jun-suk|title=Election 2016: Conservatives battle in Saenuri stronghold|newspaper=The Korea Herald|date=1 April 2016|access-date=22 August 2017}} Cho vowed to become "a patriotic president to set the Republic of Korea straight", and pledged to boost the status of the country's war heroes and "correct distortions" in public education allegedly resulting from the domination of teaching unions, traditionally leftist.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} He is a pro-China and supports common economic development between China and South Korea.{{Cite web|url=http://www.systemclub.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=13&wr_id=163376&page=5 |script-title=ko:친일보다 친중이 매국노다 조원진은 친중 북폭반대자다 > 자유게시판 {{!}} 지만원의 시스템클럽|website=www.systemclub.co.kr|access-date=2019-09-14}} He also supports Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping and his anti-corruption campaign.{{Cite web|url=http://www.idaegu.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=167459 |script-title=ko:조원진, 오늘 '시진핑 반부패 정책…' 세미나|date=2015-06-18|website=Daegu Shinmun|language=ko|access-date=2019-09-14}} He has also met with Xi Jinping in 2009 as member of National Assembly.{{Cite web|url=http://m.dgn.or.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=26187 |script-title=ko:조원진 의원, 시진핑 중국 국가 부주석 면담|website=m.dgn.or.kr|language=ko|access-date=2019-09-14}} He has also previously lived and worked in China for over 15 years.