Kim Myeong-su (Korean: 김명수; Hanja: 金命洙; born 12 October 1959) is a South Korean jurist and the 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Korea, inaugurated on 25 September 2017, succeeding the outgoing Yang Sung-tae.
Kim graduated from the Seoul National University School of Law in 1981, and passed the National Judicial Examination in 1983.
In February 2016, he was assigned as the Chief Judge of Chuncheon District.
He began his 6-year term as Chief Justice on 25 September 2017, after his nomination was confirmed in a 160–134 vote of congressional approval.
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