Kim Boo-kyum

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.
Kim Boo-kyum
김부겸
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
30 May 2016
Preceded by Lee Hahn-koo
Constituency Daegu Suseong A
In office
30 May 2000 – 29 May 2012
Preceded by Lew Seon-ho
Succeeded by Lee Hack-young
Constituency Gyeonggi Gunpo
Personal details
Born (1956-12-01) December 1, 1956 (age 67)
Sangju, South Korea
Citizenship South Korean
Political party Grand National Party (1997–2003)
Uri → UNDP → UDP → DP → DUP → DP → NPAD → Minjoo Party of Korea (2003–present)
Alma mater Seoul National University
Religion Christianity
Kim Boo-kyum
Hangul 김부겸
Hanja 金富謙
Revised Romanization Gim Bugyeom
McCune–Reischauer Kim Pugyŏm

Kim Boo-kyum (Hangul: 김부겸; hanja: 金富謙; born 1 December 1956[lower-alpha 1]) is a South Korean politician who is presently a Minjoo Party member-elect of the National Assembly for Suseong, Daegu. He was formerly the member for Gunpo between 2000 and 2012, first for the Grand National Party and then, from 2003,[2] the liberal Uri Party and its successors. In the 2016 parliamentary election in Daegu, Kim defeated his Saenuri opponent Kim Moon-soo in a 62.5 percent landslide, marking the first time a member of a liberal party had been elected in that city since 1985.[3] Kim had earlier stood for mayor of Daegu in the 2014 local elections, and received 40 percent of the vote, a number seen at the time as unusually large in the conservative stronghold. He stated in 2014 that he hoped to "overcome the barrier of regionalism".[4]

Kim is considered a centrist.[5] As a member of the Grand National Party he pressed for reform in the party,[6] and when he defected from the party in 2003 he cited the need "to unify the nation ... and to root out regionalism".[7] A 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks described Kim as a "reasonable progressive lawmaker" representing a "centrist platform",[8] and as a member of the Supreme Council of the Democratic United Party in 2012 he defended centrist members of the party from deselection.[9] Commentators have named Kim a potential candidate in the 2017 presidential elections.[4][10]

Kim was admitted to study political science at Seoul National University in 1976,[11] but was expelled for taking part in protests against the Yushin Constitution in 1977, before being readmitted and expelled again for violating martial law in 1980. He was later reinstated a second time, and received his degree in 1987.[12]

Kim's daughter, Yoon Se-in (born Kim Ji-su), is a television actress.[13] Yoon campaigned for Kim in the 2012 parliamentary election[14] and the 2014 mayoral race,[15] but was unable to in 2016.[16]

Notes

  1. ↑ Kim was born on 1 December 1956, but his date of birth is officially registered as 21 January 1958.[1]

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