He entered the
Mangyongdae Revolutionary School after
liberation of Korea. In 1950, when the
Korean War broke out, he enlisted in the military and remained in the military afterwards, reaching the rank of major general in 1970. In November 1970, he was elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee at the
5th Party Congress. Since the 80s, he served as vice department director of the
WPK Central Committee, minister of City Administration and director of the Political Bureau of the Ministry of Railways. In 1984-1985 he served as
Minister of Social Security. In the
1998 North Korean parliamentary election, he won a seat in the
Supreme People's Assembly serving as a member the presidium of the
10th Supreme People's Assembly. In October 2006 he was appointed as secretary of the Kangwon Province WPK committee. According to
KCNA he died in a car accident. ==References==