Born in South Korea in 1938. In December 1992, he was nominated for the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and was appointed chief of the Rodong Newspaper in 2003 as the successor to Chil Nam (최칠남). In 2010, he was dismissed from the head of the Rodong Newspaper, and in September, he was also dismissed from the Party Central Committee candidate. In May 2016, at the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, he was elected a full (voting) member of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and head of the Office of Documents and Management.