Countywide : Korean Community Leader Named to Panel

Ho Young Chung, 55, has been named to the Orange County Human Relations Commission by the County Board of Supervisors.

Chung, who owns an insurance agency in Buena Park, was appointed to a 2-year term to fill an at-large position.

He is a founding member and former president of the Korean Chamber of Commerce of Orange County and of the Korean-American Lions Club.

He has served as chairman of the Korean/American Assn. of Orange County and of the Koreatown Garden Grove Police Support Committee, and as vice chairman of the Orange County Minority Business Council. He was president of Korea Expo Inc., held in 1984 at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Chung graduated in 1958 from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Korea with a degree in English. He received a master’s degree in political science from Korea University in 1961 and a master of business administration from James Madison University in Virginia in 1975.

The Human Relations Commission was created in 1971 to try to eliminate discrimination against any individual or group in Orange County.

Six of the commission’s 11 members are appointed by the Board of Supervisors, and five by the Orange County Division of the League of California Cities.

Chung said he hopes to develop leadership within ethnic communities and to promote positive interaction between minority and majority populations. In particular, he proposed forming a multiracial group whose aim would be to help prevent crime by providing interpreters and other support services to local police.