Moon Jae-in

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moon Jae-in
Moon Jae-in

Korean spelling
Hangeul 문재인
Hanja 文 在 寅
Revised
Romanization 		Mun Jae-in
McCune-
Reischauer 		Mun Chaein

Moon Jae-in (born January 24, 1953 in Geoje ) is a South Korean politician of the social-liberal Deobureo-minju party , Minju party for short, and since May 10, 2017 the 12th president of the country . The human rights lawyer had worked for the former President Roh Moo-hyun and was defeated as a candidate in the 2012 presidential election to Park Geun-hye . Among other things, Moon campaigns for a rapprochement between his country and North Korea .

Life and study

Moon was born in Geoje . His father had fled North Korea and worked at the Geoje POW camp during the Korean War. Moon studied law at Kyung Hee University after graduating from high school . He was temporarily expelled from university because of his involvement in protests against the Yushin Constitution . Later, after completing his military service, he was able to complete his university studies and became a lawyer . Together with the later President Roh Moo-hyun , he opened a law firm in Busan , which was involved in human rights and civil rights issues.

Rohs employee

In 2002 he led Rohs campaign for the presidential election and after his election victory between 2003 and 2008 held leading positions in the Blue House , including the post of chief of staff. He was one of his legal representatives during the impeachment proceedings against the president in 2004. After Roh's death in 2009, Moon took care of his personal affairs.

Party politics and 2012 presidential candidacy

Politically, Moon became active again in April 2012 when he was elected a member of the National Assembly ( Gukhoe ) for the largest opposition party, Minju-tonghap . Two months later, he announced his candidacy for the 2012 presidential election in South Korea . He won the primary election of the Minju-tonghap party and thus became its candidate, but was defeated in the main election in December Park Geun-hye , the candidate of the ruling Saenuri party at the time , with a narrow vote difference of 3.6 percentage points.

From February 2015 to January 2016, Moon Jae-in was chairman of the New Political Alliance for Democracy - today's Minju Party as the successor to the Minju-tonghap Party.

President of South Korea from 2017

On March 24, 2017, he announced that he would run for the Minju Party in the presidential election on May 9, 2017 . On April 3, he won the internal party primaries with 57% of the vote and became the official candidate. According to various polls, he was just ahead of his former party colleague Ahn Cheol-soo , the candidate of the centrist Gungminui party , and thus leads the list of candidates. After he was declared the winner by the election commission with 41%, he took office on May 10, 2017. He is committed to an understanding with North Korea and has announced a greater distance from the United States. Improving working conditions and raising the minimum wage are also important to him .

Moon's approval rates were over 80% at times after he took office, but fell to almost half by May 2019. In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea , Moon was able to rehabilitate these values ​​in the short term. This had a particularly positive effect on his party's election result in the parliamentary elections in South Korea in 2020 . In July, however, Moon's approval ratings fell again to their lowest level in nine months amid controversy over the death of Seoul mayor Park Won-soon , who belonged to Moon, and his policies on the real estate market and North Korea.

After the inter-Korean summit in September 2018 Pyongyang gave Kim Jong-un Moon two Pungsan - hunting dogs with the names Songkang and Gomi.

Web links

Commons : Moon Jae-in  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moon, Ban begin race for presidency. In: Korea Times , January 15, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Moon Jae-In is the new president. Deutschlandfunk, May 10, 2017, accessed on the same day.
  3. ↑ First predictions: Left-wing politician Moon wins presidential election in South Korea. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ Choe Sang-Hun: Moon Jae-in Declares Victory in South Korea Presidential Election. In: The New York Times , May 9, 2017.
  5. ↑ Park Eun-jee, Lee Ho-jeong, Kim Young-nam: Employment, high tech at center of five-year plan. Far-ranging initiative covers corporate sector, young workers, debt. In: Korea JoongAng Daily . July 20, 2017, accessed July 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Infographic: President Moon's Approval Rating Is in Free Fall. Retrieved July 27, 2020 (English).
  7. ↑ 이치 ​​동: Moon's approval rating highest in 19 months at 64.3 pct: Realmeter. April 23, 2020, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ 이치 ​​동: Moon's rating drops to 9-month low. July 16, 2020, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
  9. ^ Park Si-soo: A gift from Kim Jong-un: Pungsan dogs. In: The Korea Times . October 1, 2018, accessed October 2, 2018 .
  10. ^ N. Korea gifts pair of Pungsan dogs to mark inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang. In: Yonhap . September 30, 2018, accessed October 2, 2018 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Moon is the family name here, Jae-in is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Moon, Jae-in
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 문재인 (Korean, Hangeul); 文 在 寅 (Korean, Hangeul); Mun, Jae-in (Korean, Hangeul); Mun, Chaein (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Geoje , South Korea