Kim Je-nam (; born 12 June 1963) is a South Korean politician who served as President

Moon Jae-in Moon Jae-in (; ; born 24 January 1953) is a South Korean former politician, civil servant and lawyer who served as the 12th president of South Korea between 2017 and 2022. Prior to his presidency, he served as Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs an ...

's Senior Presidential Secretary for Civil Society from 2020 to 2021. Kim was the first woman to ever assume such a post. Before she was promoted to senior presidential secretary, Kim worked for Moon as his secretary for climate and the environment despite her previous political career as an opposition party parliamentarian and member. In May 2021 Kim was replaced by Bang Jung-kyun, a professor at

Sangji University Sangji University (상지대학교) is a private university located in Wonju, Gangwon Province, South Korea. Established in 1955, it has seven colleges and six graduate schools. Its top areas of study are Oriental Medicine (one of only 11 in the ...

. Before entering politics, Kim worked for civil societies for environment - most notably Green Korea United. Kim was one of central figures in merging three environmental organisations into Green Korea United in 1994. Kim led this organisation as its first Deputy Secretary General from its foundation to 2007. In 2012 election Kim was placed as the number 5 on

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's proportional representation list. In less than a half year later, Kim joined other well known progressive figures of her party such as

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and

Roh Hoe-chan Roh Hoe-chan ( ko, 노회찬, 31 August 1956 – 23 July 2018) was a South Korean politician. He was a member of the 17th, 19th, and 20th National Assemblies. Roh was involved with multiple progressive-leaning parties, lately with the Justice ...

in leaving their party and founding a new party, now- Justice Party. She joined her new party's leadership as its floor spokesperson from 2013 to 2015 and senior deputy floor leader from 2015 to 2016. In 2016 election, Kim withdrew her nomination and endorsed Kang Byungwon () from

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after their agreed poll found Kang more likely to defeat

Lee Jae-oh Lee Jae-oh ( ko, link=no, 이재오, RR: ''Yi Jae-o'', Hanja: 李在五; born 11 January 1945) is a conservative South Korean politician of the New Party 2018. He was member of the National Assembly for Eunpyeong-gu in Seoul, and served as Mini ...

, a senior conservative parliamentarian. Kim holds a bachelor's degree in history from

Duksung Women's University Duksung Women's University is a private university in Seoul, South Korea founded in 1920. History Duksung Women's University is a four-year private women's university in South Korea. The campus is located in Dobong-gu, Seoul Metropolitan Govern ...

Electoral history

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