Yu Si-min

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Yu Si-min
Korean spelling
Hangeul 유시민
Hanja 柳時敏
Revised
Romanization 		Yu Si-min
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yu Simin
Different spelling
Hangeul 류시민

Yu Si-min (also listed as Rhyu Si-min ; born July 28, 1959 ) is a South Korean politician and publicist . From 2006 to 2007 he was the 44th Minister for Health and Social Affairs.

Life

education

After graduating from senior high school in Daegu , he studied economics at the renowned Seoul National University . As president of the student union , he fought against the military regime of Chun Doo-hwan from 1980 . In 1985 he was charged with incitement and sentenced to prison. Yu personally wrote the appeal letter, which is still considered legal reference today. The letter first drew him great public attention. Yu did his military service for 33 months. In 1988 he married his colleague Han Gyeong-hye in November and worked for two years as an advisor to the opposition politician Lee Hae-chan . He has also written books and worked as a screenwriter for television.

After that, the couple went to Germany to continue studying. There he obtained a degree in economics from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . Back in Korea, he worked as a journalist for the publications Dong-a Ilbo and Hankyoreh and as a lecturer at various universities.

politics

On April 24, 2003, he was elected MP for the Gukhoe . During the Roh Moo-hyun presidency from February 2006 to May 2007, he was Minister of Health and Welfare. In the United New Democratic Party , which emerged from the Yeollin-uri party ( 열린 우리당 Yeollin-uri-dang , German 'Our Open Party' ), he was a council member and the representative for the Deogyang district . After Roh's death, he founded the small, liberal People's Participation Party in January 2010. In December 2011, this merged with other left-wing groups to form the Tonghap-jinbo party ( 통합 진보당 Tonghap-jinbo-dang , German 'United Progressive Party' ), of which Yu became co-chair alongside Lee Jung-hee and Sim Sang-jeong. Due to disputes over the ideology of the party and its positioning vis-à-vis North Korea, he left the United Progressive Party and initiated the establishment of the Progressive Justice Party in October 2012.

Yu retired from politics in February 2013 and has since devoted himself to working as a columnist , publicist and writer . Due to his regular appearances on political talk shows, he is considered to be an important opinion leader in left politics in Korea.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former progressive party co-chairman Rhyu Si-min retires from politics. In: The Korea Herald , February 19, 2013.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yu is the family name here, Si-min is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Yu, Si-min
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 유시민 (Hangeul); 류시민 (Hangeul); 柳時敏 (Hanja); Yu, Si-min (revised Romanization); Yu, Simin (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean politician, university professor and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1959