Jeon Yeo-ok

{{Short description|South Korean politician (born 1959)}}

{{family name hatnote|Jeon||lang=Korean}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Jeon Yeo-ok

|image = Jeon Yeo-ok.jpg

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|4|9|df=y}}

|birth_place = Seoul
South Korea

|nationality = South Korean

|party = K Party (2012– )
Saenuri Party (to 2012)

|alma_mater = Ewha Womans University (B.A. in sociology)
Sogang University (M.A. in political science)

|profession = writer, journalist, broadcaster, politician

|website = [http://www.oktalktalk.com/ Official Website]

}}

{{Infobox Korean name

|hangul = 전여옥

|hanja = 田麗玉

|rr = Jeon Yeook

|mr = Chŏn Yŏok

}}

Jeon Yeo-ok ({{Korean|hangul=전여옥}}; born April 9, 1959) is a conservative female South Korean politician who came from a journalist background. Of a pro-Lee Myung-bak background, she was known for expressing discontent against Park Geun-hye who regained control of the Saenuri Party (formally the Grand National Party). She was not nominated during the party nomination process for the 2012 legislative election as one of the close supporters of Lee Myung-bak.{{cite news | first = Beom-hyeon (범현) | last = Kim (김) | script-title=ko:절반가량 진행된 새누리 공천..계파별 명암은 | date = 2012-03-07 | url = http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/bulletin/2012/03/07/0200000000AKR20120307154500001.HTML | work=Yonhap News Agency | access-date = 2012-03-08 | language = ko}} Until then, she was considered as the main rival of Park Geun-hye.{{cite news | first = Su-gyeong (수경) | last = Cho (조) | script-title=ko:'공천탈락' 전여옥 "이게 박근혜의 그릇" | date = 2012-03-05 | url = http://www.mediatoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=100769 | work=Media Today | access-date = 2012-03-08 | language = ko}}

Jeon was accused of academic elitism, as she opposed the nomination of the former president Roh Moo-hyun because he did not graduate from a higher level institution.{{cite news | script-title = ko:다음 대통령, 대학 나온 사람이 돼야 | date = 2005-06-03 | url = http://news.hankooki.com/lpage/politics/200506/h2005060314332321060.htm | work=Hankook Ilbo | access-date = 2012-03-08 | language = ko | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130616035057/http://news.hankooki.com/lpage/politics/200506/h2005060314332321060.htm | archive-date = 2013-06-16 }}