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Preceded by
  
Lee Jae-kyun

Alma mater
  
Hanyang University

Education
  
Hanyang University

Preceded by
  
Hwang Woo-yea

Name
  
Kim Moo-sung

Party
  
Saenuri Party

Citizenship
  
Korean

Role
  
South Korean Politician

Political party
  
Saenuri Party

Spouse
  
Choi Yang-ok


Kim Moo-sung Saenuri Party elects Rep Kim Moosung as new chairman

Constituency
  
Yeongdo District, Busan

Born
  
September 20, 1951 (age 72) Busan, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea (
1951-09-20
)

Siblings
  
Kim Chang-sung, Kim Nam-gon, Kim Han-sung

Similar People
  
Moon Jae‑in, Park Geun‑hye, Ahn Cheol‑soo, Park Won‑soon, Roh Moo‑hyun

Profiles


Children
  
Koh Yun, Kim Hyeon-gyeong

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Kim Moo-sung (born 20 September 1951) is a South Korean politician as a member of the Bareun Party. He was previously the Saenuri Party leader from 2014 to 2016.

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Education

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Kim graduated from Joongdong High School in Seoul in 1970. He graduated from Hanyang University in 1976, majoring in business administration. He also took courses on public policy in Korea University in 1999.

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Kim received honorary doctorate degrees from the following institutions: Doctor of Policy from Pukyong National University (2003), Doctor of Public Administration from Korea Maritime and Ocean University (2006) and Honorary Doctor of Political Science from Dongguk University (2015).

Political career

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Kim was first elected to the National Assembly representing the Nam District of Busan in 1996 as a member of the then-ruling New Korea Party. He was subsequently elected three more times from the same district and in 2008 was forced to run as an independent after losing renomination from his own party. He again failed to win renomination for the same constituency in 2012 and temporarily left politics between 2012 and 2013. He ran as the Saenuri Party candidate in a by-election held in Yeongdo District, Busan, and won his fifth term in the National Assembly in 2013. In 2014, he was elected leader of the ruling Saenuri Party. However, he resigned in April 2016 after the defeat of Saenuri Party in the National Assembly.

Potential candidacy for presidency

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In a 2015 interview, Kim said he was "not yet qualified to be president". In November 2016, he suspended his presidential campaign process and declared that he would joint the impeachment process against President Park Geun-hye.

Political views

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Kim is widely known as an anti-gay politician and vocal opponent to LGBT rights. In 2016 Kim placed second on the Rainbow Vote list of 22 most homophobic politicians in South Korea.

"Charcoal" skin color remarks

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Kim faced criticism for comparing the skin color of a black Nigerian student to that of charcoal briquettes. He later apologized to the Yeungnam University student on 18 December 2015.

"No look pass"

Kim went viral both in Korea and abroad after he was filmed at an airport arrival area. He slid over a bright light green suitcase manner to his assistant without having looked over where he was passing the suitcase off to. This prompted him to be featured on international media outlets, as well as criticized by some as looking elitist and condescending.



References

Kim Moo-sung Wikipedia