Kim Doo-kwan

Kim Doo-kwan

Kim Doo-kwan ( Korean : 김두관 , Hanja : 金斗 官, born April 10, 1959 in Namhae ) is a South Korean politician.

life and career

Kim Doo-kwan graduated in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the Dong-A University in Seoul in 1987. He played a leading role in the June fight in 1987 and was imprisoned for it. After his release, he set up a farmers' association in his hometown of Namhae and started a regional newspaper .

In the first regional elections in 1995 he was elected mayor of Namhae, in 2002 and 2006 he ran for gubernatorial elections in Gyeongsangnam-do Province , but could not win the elections. In 2003 he was appointed Minister of Administration and Internal Affairs under President Roh Moo-hyun , but was forced to resign seven months later under pressure from the opposition party. In 2004 he stood for the ruling Yeollin-uri party in the 2004 parliamentary elections in his home country, but failed to achieve a majority. In 2010 he made another attempt for the governorship in Gyeongsangnam-do without affiliation and was successful. In the primary election for the presidential election in South Korea in 2012 , he took third place in the Minju party . In the parliamentary elections in South Korea in 2016 , he entered the National Assembly after the election victory in Gimpo , and four years later he narrowly won the election in Yangsan against the former mayor of the city.

For a short time he worked as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Korean Studies at the Free University of Berlin with a focus on the federal system in Germany , the integration after German reunification and the universal welfare system.

Web links

• Kim Doo-kwan's Twitter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [선택 4 · 15 - 화제 의 당선인] 양산 을 더불어 민주당 김두관 :: 경남. Kyungnam Ilbo, April 16, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020 (Korean). 
2. ↑ Doo Kwan Kim (retired interior minister) Korean studies former visiting scholar. FU Berlin, accessed on July 3, 2020 .