Korn Dabbaransi

Korn Dabbaransi (Thai: กร ทัพพะรังสี, RTGS: Kon Thappharangsi, alternatively transcribed as Thapparangsi or Dabaransi, Thai pronunciation: [kɔːn tʰáppʰáraŋsǐː]; born 14 September 1945) is a Thai politician. He was the leader of the National Development Party from 1998 to 2003. Korn served as deputy prime minister and as a cabinet minister in several governments. He currently serves as the President of the Thai-Chinese Friendship Association.

Korn Dabbaransi
กร ทัพพะรังสี
Korn in 2018
Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
In office
5 March 2002 – 8 November 2003
Prime MinisterThaksin Shinawatra
In office
5 October 1998 – 9 November 2000
Prime MinisterChuan Leekpai
In office
25 November 1996 – 9 November 1997
Prime MinisterChavalit Yongchaiyudh
Minister of Science and Technology
In office
10 March 2004 – 1 August 2005
Prime MinisterThaksin Shinawatra
Preceded byChettha Thannajaro
Succeeded byPrawit Rattanapian
Minister of Public Health
In office
5 October 1998 – 9 November 2000
Prime MinisterChuan Leekpai
Preceded byRakkiat Sukthana
Succeeded bySudarat Keyuraphan
Minister of Industry
In office
25 November 1996 – 9 November 1997
Prime MinisterChavalit Yongchaiyudh
Preceded byKosit Panpiemras
Succeeded bySomsak Thepsuthin
Minister to the Office of the Prime Minister
In office
9 August 1988 – 9 December 1990
Prime MinisterBanharn Silpa-archa
Personal details
Born (1945-09-14) 14 September 1945
Bangkok, Thailand
Political party
SpouseRaphiphan Dabbaransi
Alma materUniversity of Massachusetts

Family and education

Korn Dapparansi is a fourth generation Thai Chinese. He is a grandson of former deputy prime minister Phin Choonhavan and a nephew of former prime minister Chatichai Choonhavan.[1][2] He graduated from Saint Gabriel's College and the University of Massachusetts.[3]

Political career

He entered politics in 1974, representing the Thai Nation Party of his uncles Chatichai and Pramarn Adireksarn. Korn served as Deputy Minister of Industry in the government of General Prem Tinsulanonda from 1986 to 1988.[4] He was a minister to the Office of Prime Minister in his uncle Chatichai's cabinet from 1990 to 1991.[5] After the military coup d'état of 1991, he was again Minister to the Office of Prime Minister in the short-lived military-backed government of Suchinda Kraprayoon.[6] After the events of the Black May 1992, that toppled the Suchinda administration, he left the Thai Nation Party and founded the National Development Party, together with Chatichai.[7]

In December 1994, Korn was again appointed Minister to the Office of Prime Minister by Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, he held that position until the government lost its majority in 1995.[8] In Chavalit Yongchaiyudh's coalition government, Korn held the position of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry from 1996 to 1997.[9] In 1998, Korn took over the chairmanship of the National Development Party from Chatichai. In October of that year, he was made Deputy Prime Minister again under Chuan Leekpai, holding the public health portfolio additionally.[10]

In the succeeding cabinet of Thaksin Shinawatra, Korn was again Deputy Prime Minister from March 2002 to November 2003, when Thaksin dropped the National Development Party from his coalition. Thereupon Korn defected to the Prime Minister's Thai Rak Thai Party.[11] He was called up to the cabinet as Minister of Science and Technology again in March 2004, serving until August 2005.[12][13]

In 2007, Korn left Thai Rak Thai for the Royalist People's Party (Pracharaj) of Sanoh Thienthong, became deputy leader, but resigned from the party in October of the same year, to re-join the Thai Nation Party after 15 years.[14]

Other offices

Korn was the president of the International Badminton Federation (IBF).[3] He has been the chairman of the Thai-Chinese Friendship Association since 2002.[15]

References
  1. Ueda, Yoko (2000), "The Entrepreneurs of Khorat", Money & power in provincial Thailand, NIAS Publishing, p. 182, ISBN 9788787062701
  2. Close bond with China inherited from ancestors
  3. Co-Chairman: Korn Dabbaransi – Former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, Asia Pacific Exchange & Cooperation Foundation, retrieved on 22 March 2012
  4. Assembly XLIV Archived 2012-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, The Cabinet, retrieved 22 March 2012
  5. Assembly XLVI Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine, The Cabinet, retrieved 22 March 2012
  6. Assembly XLVIII Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine, The Cabinet, retrieved 22 March 2012
  7. Maisrikrod, Surin (1992), Thailands Two General Elections in 1992: Democracy Sustained, Institute of South East Asian Studies, p. 7, ISBN 9789813016521
  8. Assembly L Archived 2012-01-26 at the Wayback Machine, The Cabinet, retrieved 22 March 2012
  9. Assembly LII Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine, The Cabinet, retrieved 22 March 2012
  10. Assembly LIII Archived 2011-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, The Cabinet, retrieved 22 March 2012
  11. Connors, Michael Kelly (2006), "Thaksin's Thailand: Thai Politics in 2003-04", Thailand's Economic Recovery, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, p. 32, ISBN 9789812303523
  12. Assembly LIV Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine, The Cabinet, retrieved 22 March 2012
  13. Assembly LV Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine, The Cabinet, retrieved 22 March 2012
  14. Mr. Korn quits Pracharaj to join Chart Thai, NNT National News Bureau of Thailand, 31 October 2007, archived from the original on 15 July 2012, retrieved 22 March 2012
  15. Guangyong, Sun (22 June 2011), "Thai diplomat: CPC serves people", People's Daily Online, retrieved 22 March 2012
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