Ki Dong-min
Ki Dong-min | |
|---|---|
기동민 | |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| Assuming office 30 May 2016 | |
| Succeeding | Shin Gye-ryoon |
| Constituency | Seoul Seongbuk B |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 February 1966 Jangseong, South Jeolla, South Korea |
| Citizenship | South Korean |
| Political party | Minjoo Party of Korea |
| Alma mater | Sungkyunkwan University |
| Ki Dong-min | |
| Hangul | 기동민 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 奇東旻 |
| Revised Romanization | Gi Dongmin |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ki Tongmin |
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.
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]
References
- ^ "기동민, 서울 동작을 전략공천". OhmyNews (in Korean). 3 July 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ "서울 성북을 더불어민주당 기동민". Focus News (in Korean). 14 April 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ "서울시 정무부시장에 기동민 정무수석 내정". Seoul City (in Korean). 31 October 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ "20년 우정, 파국으로 끝난 출마회견". The Huffington Post Korea (in Korean). 8 July 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ a b "Seoul's Dongjak B emerges as 'new hub of politics'". The Dong-A Ilbo. 9 July 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ "여론조사서 앞선 기동민, 왜 사퇴했나?". The Hankyoreh (in Korean). 24 July 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ "'동작을', 왜 노회찬 아닌 나경원을?". The Hankyoreh (in Korean). 11 August 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ "'박원순맨' 기동민 출마...세대교체 본격화". Pressian (in Korean). 2 February 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
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