Sim Sang-jeong
| Sim Sang-jung | |
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| 심상정 | |
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| Chairwoman of the Justice Party | |
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Assumed office 18 July 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Cheon Ho-sun |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
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Assumed office 30 May 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Son Beom Gyu |
| Constituency | Gyeonggi Goyang A |
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In office 30 May 2004 – 29 May 2008 |
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| Constituency | Proportional representation |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
20 February 1959 Paju, South Korea |
| Political party |
Democratic Labor (2000-2008) New Progressive (2008-2011) Unified Progressive (2011–2012) Justice (2012–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Lee Seung-bae |
| Alma mater | Seoul National University |
| Religion | Lapsed Catholic |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 심상정 |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Sim Sangjeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sim Sangjŏng |
Sim Sang-jung (born February 20, 1959) is a South Korean politician. She is one of the five major presidential candidates in the 2017 South Korean presidential election, running as the Justice Party's nominee.
She is currently a member of the 20th National Assembly and the leader of the minor progressive, leftist Justice Party.
Sim has a bachelor's degree in education from Seoul National University.
At the age of 21, she worked at a cassette tape factory where her days as a labor rights activist began. Sim was subsequently fired for mobilizing workers to demand higher wages and better meals. She "hopped from job to job" to earn a wage but continued her labor activism. In 1985, she was on the country's most wanted list for instigating labor strikes.
Sim is widely known to be a major political leader for the left progressive faction in Korean politics. She is three-term lawmaker in the National Assembly, former leader of the Democratic Labor Party, the former co-founder of the New Progressive Party, and the former co-founder and leader of the Unified Progressive Party (UPP).
Sim was first elected as a proportional representative in the 17th National Assembly under the Democratic Labor Party. She won her first direct election in the 19th National Assembly as a member of the UPP with 49.37% of the votes in an area of Gyeonggi Goyang in 2012.
Following the disintegration of the Unified Progressive Party after the Park Geun-hye government's petition to the Constitutional Court of Korea for the UPP's alleged pro-North Korean views in 2013, Sim help found and is the current leader of the Justice Party. Sim won another seat in the 20th National Assembly in 2016, again in an area of Goyang with 53% of the vote.
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