Cheong Hyungsik

Cheong Hyungsik (Korean: 정형식; born September 2, 1961) is a South Korean jurist who serves as a justice of the Constitutional Court of Korea. He was nominated directly by national President Yoon Suk Yeol on November 16, 2023, and officially appointed to the court on December 18, 2023.

Originally from Yanggu, Gangwon, Cheong graduated from the Seoul National University College of Law and 17th class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute before beginning his career as a judge for the Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Court in 1988. For the next 35 years, he served as a judge for courts in Seoul, South Gyeongsang, Gyeonggi, North Chungcheong, and Daejeon. In 2023, he was nominated and appointed to the Constitutional Court as a replacement for Justice Yoo Nam-seok. During his tenure on the court, he has been classified as a conservative judge.