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Ki Dong-min (Korean: 기동민; Hanja: 奇東旻; born 23 February 1966) is a South Korean politician in the liberal Minjoo Party of Korea, and since the April 2016 parliamentary election member-elect of the National Assembly for Seongbuk, Seoul.
Ki Dong-min | |
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기동민 | |
Member of the National Assembly | |
Assuming office 30 May 2016 | |
Succeeding | Shin Gye-ryoon |
Constituency | Seongbuk B (Seoul) |
Personal details | |
Born | Jangseong, South Jeolla, South Korea | 23 February 1966
Citizenship | South Korean |
Political party | Minjoo Party of Korea |
Alma mater | Sungkyunkwan University |
Ki Dong-min | |
Hangul | 기동민 |
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Hanja | 奇東旻 |
Revised Romanization | Gi Dongmin |
McCune–Reischauer | Ki Tongmin |
Born in Jangseong County in South Jeolla, Ki studied journalism at Sungkyunkwan University, and was involved in the South Korean democratization movement as a student.[1] He served as a parliamentary aide and policy advisor in the Ministry of Health and Welfare,[2] before becoming deputy spokesman for the Democratic Party. Mayor Park Won-soon of Seoul appointed Ki his senior secretary for political affairs in 2011, then Vice Mayor for Political Affairs in 2012.[3]
In the 2014 parliamentary by-elections, Ki was controversially nominated by the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, the Minjoo Party's predecessor, for the Dongjak B constituency in preference to his own friend and fellow democracy activist, Heo Dong-joon.[4] Ki's selection provoked a widely publicized dispute between the two men, with Heo holding a week-long sit-in protest at the office of the party chairman in response.[5] Despite being the frontrunner in opinion polling, Ki subsequently withdrew from the election to support Roh Hoe-chan of the Justice Party as a left-wing unity candidate.[6] The by-election, held on July 30, was ultimately won by Na Kyung-won of the conservative Saenuri Party.[7]
As a former aide, Ki is seen as close to Park Won-soon: during his candidature for the 2016 parliamentary elections, he was described as a "Park Won-soon man".[8] His selection in the 2014 by-election was also widely ascribed to Park, though other commentators associated his nomination with then–party co-leader Kim Han-gil.[5]