Kim Jin-pyo (; born 4 May 1947) is a South Korean politician previously served as a government minister under two liberal Presidents

Kim Dae-jung Kim Dae-jung (; ; 6 January 192418 August 2009), was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003. He was a 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient for his work for democracy and human ...

and

Roh Moo-hyun Roh Moo-hyun (; ; 1 September 1946 – 23 May 2009) was a South Korean politician and lawyer who served as the ninth president of South Korea between 2003 and 2008. Roh's pre-presidential political career was focused on human rights advocacy for ...

and currently representing

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at the

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from 2004. He has dedicated his career in public service as a

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for 30 years and then as government minister and a parliamentarian. He is considered as the more conservative wing of the centrist, liberal

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Pre-Minister career

After passing the state exam in 1974, he began his career as a public servant at one of regional offices of National Tax Service. Apart from working for

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Rha Woong-bae as his chief of staff for five months in 1996, he continued working on tax. He was part of a small task-force to prepare "real-name financial system" and one of nine people apart from then-President

Kim Young-sam Kim Young-sam (; or ; 20 December 1927 – 22 November 2015) was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the seventh president of South Korea from 1993 to 1998. From 1961, he spent almost 30 years as one of the leaders of t ...

who knew about this before it was announced by the president. Under President

, he led the Tax and Customs Office of the Ministry of Finance and Economy from 1991 and oversaw the implementation of newly-created "real-name real estate system." From 2001 he led the Ministry as its Vice-Minister. From January 2002, he worked on building country-wide

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as Senior Presidential Secretary for Policy Planning () and later appointed as Minister for Government Policy Coordination. In 2002 then-President-elect

appointed him as vice chair of his transition team praising him as "the most capable public servant I have ever met."

Member of State Council and
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Kim later became Roh's first Minister of Finance and Economy and ex officio

in 2003. In 2004 he resigned for the 2004 general election upon Roh's recommendation. After successfully securing his seat at the parliament, he was brought back to Roh's cabinet as his Minister of Education and Human Resources Development and ex officio Deputy Prime Minister. In 2007 he became the chair of Policy Planning Committee of his party,

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, and its succeeding party,

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. From 2008 to 2010 he served as a member of his party's Supreme Council. In 2010 he ran for his party's candidate for Gyeonggi Provincial Governor but dropped out after endorsing Rhyu Si-min from other liberal party. In 2011 he was elected as the floor leader of this party which he continued to serve in succeeding party till 2012. In the 2014 election, he resigned from the post of three-term parliamentarian to run as his party's candidate for Gyeonggi Governor but lost to Nam Kyung-pil from opposition party. In 2015 he became a member of advisory committee to then-party leader

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 ...

. He organised the "policy exposition" of his party - the first of its kind in South Korean history. In 2017 Kim joined

's second presidential campaign in 2017 as the chair of its jobs committee. Upon the beginning of

's presidency, Kim was appointed as the chair of State Affairs Planning Advisory Committee (), Moon's de facto transition team, as Moon began his presidency without having one. The Committee produced detailed blueprint of Moon's 5-year administration with 100 policy tasks based on Moon's campaign promises. Kim Jin-pyo was elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly to be occupied by the Democratic Party of Korea.

Early life and education

Kim was born in

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, now North Korean territory. During

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he and his father moved south and settled in now-

. He was admitted to Kyungbock High School as top of his class. He holds two degrees -

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from

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where he completed his postgraduate programme on public policy and

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from

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Electoral history

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