Yoo Seong-min

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Yoo Seong-min in May 2017
Korean spelling
Hangeul 유승민
Hanja 劉承 旼
Revised
Romanization 		Yu Seungmin
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yu Sŭngmin

Yoo Seong-min (born January 7, 1958 in Daegu , South Korea ) is a liberal conservative South Korean politician and member of the Gukhoe , where he represents the Dong-gu seat B , a northeastern district of the city of Daegu. He served as party leader of the Bareun Party , a split from the Jayu-hanguk party . For a few months he also served as the party leader of the successor Bareun-mirae party , the merger of the Bareun and Gungminui parties .

In January 2020 he joined the Saeroun-bosu party, which he co-founded . Less than two months later, this became part of the Mirae-tonghap party .

Early life

Yoo Seong-min was born in Daegu in 1958 and studied economics at Seoul National University , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1982 . He then continued his studies in the United States at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . His fields of study included industrial economics , business mathematics and econometrics . He published his doctoral thesis in 1987. It is entitled Entry Into a Foreign Market: Theory and Evidence .

Yoo has a daughter named Yoo Dam.

Career as an economist

After graduating, Yoo worked as an economist at the Korea Development Institute from 1987 to 2000 . He was then from 2000 to 2003 President of the Youido Institute, a think tank of the Hannara Party at the time (now Jayu-hanguk Party ).

Political career

Yoo Seong-min was elected for the first time as a member of the Gukhoe for the conservative Hannara party in the general election in South Korea in 2004 . During this time he was a close confidante and advisor to the future President of South Korea Park Geun-hye and prepared her campaign for the presidential election in South Korea in 2007 . After the party had to surrender to its inner-party competitor Lee Myung-bak in the party's own primaries , the relationship between the two politicians began to turn negative. His re-election in the wake of the parliamentary elections in South Korea in 2016 won Yoo as a non-party member , he was not nominated as a candidate of saenuri party (new name of Hannara Party) due to his poor relationship with the park. After winning the election, he rejoined the party.

After Park got involved in a corruption scandal involving her closest confidante Choi Soon-sil and was pressured to resign, Yoo joined the newly formed Bareun party .

2017 presidential election

Yoo Seong-min at a Bareun Party event

For the Bareun party, Yoo entered the race for the Blue House after he had prevailed in the party primary with 62.9% of the vote against the governor of Gyeonggi-do Nam Kyung-pil .

Yoo stood up to make society more compassionate and fairer. According to experts, he presented himself as a sensible conservative in the race. Yoo proposed a two-part political strategy. Conservative on national security and progressive on economic issues. Harsh policies towards North Korea would have been expected in his election . Yoo advocated putting pressure on before engaging in dialogue. He is a supporter of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile defense system .

He reached fourth place in the election and received 6.76% of the vote.

New Conservative Party

At the end of 2019, Yoo was involved in the founding of the Saeroun-bosu (New Conservative Party) party. This represents a right-wing split from the Bareun-mirae party . At the beginning of January 2020, Yoo left their faction together with seven other members of the Gukhoe and joined the new party to lead them in the parliamentary election in South Korea in 2020 . On February 17, 2020, the party joined forces with the Jayu-hanguk party to form the Mirae-tonghap party .

Web links

Commons : Yoo Seong-min  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Seong Min Yoo: Entry Into a Foreign Market: Theory and Evidence . University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1987 ( google.at [accessed November 2, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b Voters sympathize with Yoo Seong-min. May 3, 2017, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ Members Profile <The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 이해 아: (profile) Bareun Party's presidential nominee known as aide-turned-critic of Park. March 28, 2017, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 한국 경제 티브이: 무소속 유승민 4 선 성공 ＂한번도 새누리 당 人 아니라고 생각 한적 없어＂. April 14, 2016, Retrieved November 2, 2019 (Korean).
  6. ↑ 29 lawmakers break away from the Saenuri Party. December 27, 2016, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  7. ^ Rep. Yoo Seong-min wins Bareun Party nomination. March 28, 2017, accessed November 2, 2019 .
  8. ↑ David Sungjae Hong: Impact Player: Yoo Seong-min. April 25, 2017, accessed February 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ South Korea: 19th presidential election results 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  10. ^ Yoo Leads Defectors from Minor Opposition to 'New Conservative Party'. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yoo is the family name here, Seong-min is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Yoo, Seong-min
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 유승민 (Korean, Hangeul); 劉承 旼 (Korean, Hanja); Yu Seungmin (Revised Romanization); Yu Sŭngmin (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Daegu , South Korea