Ki Dong-min
| Ki Dong-min | |
|---|---|
| 기동민 | |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
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Taking office 30 May 2016 |
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| 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 (Hangul: 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. He served as a parliamentary aide and policy advisor in the Ministry of Health and Welfare, 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.
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. 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. 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. The by-election, held on July 30, was ultimately won by Na Kyung-won of the conservative Saenuri Party.
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