Ki Dong-min

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In this Korean name, the family name is Ki.
Ki Dong-min
기동민
Member of the National Assembly
Assuming office
30 May 2016
SucceedingShin Gye-ryoon
ConstituencySeongbuk B (Seoul)
Personal details
Born (1966-02-23) 23 February 1966 (age 58)
Minjoo Party of Korea
Alma materSungkyunkwan University
Ki Dong-min
Hangul
기동민
Hanja
奇東旻
Revised RomanizationGi Dongmin
McCune–ReischauerKi Tongmin

Ki Dong-min (

Minjoo Party of Korea, and since the April 2016 parliamentary election member-elect of the National Assembly for Seongbuk, Seoul
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Born in

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.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] The by-election, held on July 30, was ultimately won by Na Kyung-won of the conservative Saenuri Party.[7]

As a former aide, Ki is seen as close to Park Won-soon: during his candidature for the 2016 parliamentary elections, he was described as a "Park Won-soon man".[8] His selection in the 2014 by-election was also widely ascribed to Park, though other commentators associated his nomination with then–party co-leader Kim Han-gil.[5]

References

  1. ^ "기동민, 서울 동작을 전략공천" [Ki Dong-min, strategic nomination in Seoul Dongjak B]. OhmyNews (in Korean). 3 July 2014. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  2. ^ "서울 성북을 더불어민주당 기동민" [Ki Dong-min, Minjoo Party of Korea, Seoul Seongbuk B]. Focus News (in Korean). 14 April 2016. Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  3. ^ "서울시 정무부시장에 기동민 정무수석 내정" [Ki Dong-min nominated as Vice Mayor for Political Affairs of Seoul]. Seoul City (in Korean). 31 October 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  4. The Huffington Post Korea
    (in Korean). 8 July 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  5. ^
    The Dong-A Ilbo
    . 9 July 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  6. ^ "여론조사서 앞선 기동민, 왜 사퇴했나?" [Why did opinion poll frontrunner Ki Dong-min withdraw?]. The Hankyoreh (in Korean). 24 July 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  7. ^ "'동작을', 왜 노회찬 아닌 나경원을?" ["Dongjak B", why Na Kyung-won, not Roh Hoe-chan?]. The Hankyoreh (in Korean). 11 August 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  8. ^ "'박원순맨' 기동민 출마...세대교체 본격화" ["Park Won-soon man" Ki Dong-min running for office ... Regularization of the generational change]. Pressian (in Korean). 2 February 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
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