Kim Jong-min (; born 12 May 1964) is a South Korean politician representing the constituency of Nonsan–Gyeryong–Geumsan in the

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from 2016.

Before entering politics

Kim studied Korean Language and Literature at

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. After graduating college, Kim worked as a political journalist for newspapers—daily ''Naeil'' () and weekly ''Sisajournal'' ()—during which he met then-presidential hopeful Roh Moo-hyun.

Early political career

Kim first joined politics in 2003 when he started working as one of the administrators at Office of Senior Secretary for Public Affairs to the President Roh (). He continued working for Roh until the end of Roh's term. In 2004 he was promoted to vice presidential spokesperson and a month later to the Roh's third presidential spokesperson becoming the youngest person to assume this post at the age of 40. Kim was Roh's first spokesperson after Roh returned to the office following Constitutional Court's ruling which turned down his impeachment voted by the parliament. In 2005 he was reshuffled to secretary for public affairs and served till the end of Roh's presidency in 2008. After serving at the

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for the entire Roh's presidency of five years, Kim joined in developing and running the online debate platform of Roh's supporters, "Democracy 2.0" which operated only for a short period due to Roh's suicide. He later joined

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, then-elected governor of South Chungcheong Province, whom he first met at university as his first deputy. He resigned from the post for the 2012 general election.

National Assembly member

In the 2016 general election, Kim defeated a six-term parliamentarian, a former presidential candidate with a nickname "phoenix"

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who defeated Kim in the previous 2012 election. Since then he took multiple roles in his party such as vice chair of its Policy Planning Committee from 2015 to 2017 and deputy floor leader from 2018 to 2019. In July 2020 he announced his campaign to become one of five elected members of his party's Supreme Council. In August 2020 he was elected as a Supreme Council member for a fixed term of two years receiving the most votes from party members among 8 candidates. From September 2020 Kim chairs party's task force for reforming "power institutions" such as prosecution,

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and

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agencies and from October 2020 its committee to reform the party itself.

Electoral history

Awards

Order of Service Merit The Order of Service Merit (Hangul: 근정훈장) is one of South Korea's orders of merit. It is awarded by the President of South Korea to public officials, private school teachers, and special post office employees for "outstanding meritorious ...

by the government of South Korea (2006)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Jong-min Living people 1964 births People from Nonsan Politicians from South Chungcheong Province Seoul National University alumni Democratic Party of Korea politicians Members of the National Assembly (South Korea)