Born in Busan on April 9, 1953, Hyun Back Chung was Minister of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (July 2017 to September 2018). She is currently Professor Emeritus at Sungkyunkwan University. Since 1984, she has been a professor at the Department of History at Sungkyunkwan University, and has published many books mainly on German labor history and women's history. Her most famous books are <Labor Movement and Worker's Culture (1991)> and <Nation and Feminism (2003)>. She is also an energetic activist. She served as co-representative of the 'Korean Women's Association United', the umbrella organization of the Korean Women's Movement. She then served as a co-representative of the 'People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy'. She is mainly interested in women's issues and the Korean unification/peace movement.