Preceded by Park Chang-dal Citizenship South Korean Spouse Oh Sun-hye Parents Yusuho, Kang Ok-Sung | Constituency Dong B (Daegu) Political party Bareun (2017–present) Party Bareun Party | |
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Constituency Proportional representation Born January 7, 1958 (age 59)
Daegu, South Korea ( 1958-01-07 ) Other political
affiliations Saenuri (2000–2016; 2016)
Independent (2016; 2016–2017) Education University of Wisconsin-Madison (1987) Siblings Yoo Seung-jung, Yoo Jin-hee Similar Kim Moo‑sung, Rhyu Si‑min, Nam Kyung‑pil, Moon Jae‑in, Ahn Cheol‑soo | ||
Bareun party picks yoo seong min as its presidential nominee
Yoo Seong-min (유승민, born January 7, 1958), also spelled as Yoo Seung-min, is a South Korean economist and politician. He is the son of late Daegu court chief attorney and parliament member Yoo Soo-ho.
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Bareun party officially picks yoo seong min as its presidential nominee
Early life
He graduated from Seoul National University for bachelor's degree of economics, and achieved his Ph. D in economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a focus on industrial organization theory.
Yoo worked as an economist at the Korea Development Institute (KDI).
Hannara/Saenuri Party member
He was elected as member of the National Assembly four times since 2004 as a member of the conservative Hannara Party. Yoo also served as Chief of Staff to future President and then-lawmaker Park Geun-hye in 2005, and was considered her close aide.
Yoo was the floor leader for the Saenuri Party (renamed from Hannara) in the National Assembly. He resigned from the position in July 2015. After being deselected in the party's nominations process, he stood as an independent in the 2016 general election and still managed to win with nearly three quarters of the vote. He stated after the election in interview that he would return to the Saenuri Party.
Bareun Party
Yoo went onto help form, and joined, the political group New Conservative Party for Reform, later permentantly renamed the Bareun Party, during the 2016 South Korean political scandal.
He is currently running in the 2017 South Korean presidential election. Yoo faced a primary challenge against Nam Kyung-pil to be his party's nominee. He went onto win the presidential nomination of the Bareun Party in March 28, 2017.
2017 presidential campaign
Yoo won the party's nomination for the 2017 South Korean presidential election. His campaign platform has been called conservative on foreign policy (안보는 보수 - "maintaining national security") while calling for reforms on the South Korean economy (경제는 개혁 - "reforming the economy").