[Moon Jae-in] Person Moon Jae-in's past, marriage, academic background, political career, etc.
1. Overview
Moon Jae-in (文在寅, born January 24, 1953) is the 19th President of the Republic of Korea. (Term: May 10, 2017 – May 9, 2022) Prior to entering politics, he worked as a human rights lawyer at a law firm in Busan with Roh Moo-hyun. He served as the 19th National Assembly member of the Republic of Korea and the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea.
Headquartered in Nampyeong, he led the student movement while attending Kyunghee University and protested against the dictatorship of the Park Chung-hee Yushin. In 1975, he was imprisoned in Seodaemun Detention Center and expelled from the university. After his release, he was forcibly drafted into the military without undergoing a physical examination. After completing his military service as a special forces soldier, he returned to school and led the student movement to protest the military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan. He was imprisoned in Cheongnyangni Detention Center in 1980. After graduating from the Judicial Research and Training Institute in 1982, it was known that he was rejected as a judge due to his student activism.
During the 2002 presidential election campaign, the first president of the Participatory Government in 2003, who was dramatically elected in the 16th Presidential Election after refusing the request of the Millennium Democratic Party candidate Roh Moo-hyun to "take the role of the election committee chair" He served as the Chief of Civil Affairs in the Secretariat. In 2004, he resigned and went trekking into the Himalayas, but on the way, after hearing news of Roh's impeachment proceedings, he immediately returned to Korea and served as secretary of the defense team. In 2005, he entered the Blue House again and served as chief of civil society, chief of civil affairs, special adviser for political affairs in the Office of the Presidential Secretariat, and then as the last chief of office of the presidential secretary in the Participatory Government.
Moon Jae-in started his political career in earnest when he ran for office in Sasang-gu, Busan in the 19th general election in 2012. In the same year, he declared his candidacy and competed with Sohn Hak-gyu, Kim Doo-kwan, and Jeong Se-kyun, winning 13 victories in the national competition, and was confirmed as the 18th presidential candidate of the Democratic United Party. On February 8, 2015, he was elected to the new Politics and Democracy Coalition, and served as the new Democratic Party leader until January 2016. After resigning from his presidency, he did not run for the 20th general election, but also campaigned for Democratic candidates. In November 2016, he served as a permanent adviser during the impeachment phase of President Park Geun-hye.
On March 10, 2017, when Park Geun-hye was removed from office and an early presidential election was decided, he re-challenged for the presidency. He competed with Lee Jae-myung, Choi Seong, and Ahn Hee-jung to win a majority of the total votes and held a runoff election on April 3, 2017 without a runoff. In the presidential election held on May 9, 2017, he was elected as the 19th presidential candidate of the Democratic Party of Korea. Therefore, at 8:09 on May 10, 2017, the time to decide the election of the National Election Commission, he took office as the 19th president without forming the Presidential Transition Committee.
2. Past
- President Moon Jae-in, the son of a displaced person, was born on January 24, 1953 in a rural farmhouse in Geoje, Gyeongsangnam-do, the son of a displaced person. His parents fled from Heungnam during the Korean War on June 25 and settled in Geoje. By the time he entered elementary school, his family moved to Yeongdo, Busan. Despite his poor family circumstances, he entered the prestigious Gyeongnam Middle School and Gyeongnam High School in Busan and achieved excellent grades. It is said that when he was accepted to Gyeongnam Middle School, his father, who was usually reticent, took him to the international market to match his uniform without hiding his proud feelings. There were a lot of things he didn't want to do because of his poverty, but for him, poverty became a nutrient that nurtures his self-reliance and independence. In addition, the memory of his childhood poverty became a lesson in his life as it is, and it became an opportunity to resolve to help the poor and needy without passing by.
- After entering a turbulent youth high school, resistance to an absurd and unfair society began to sprout. Whenever he faced a critical situation, he joined the protesters. When he was a sophomore in high school, he took part in protests against the third term constitutional amendment. President Moon Jae-in, who entered Kyunghee University as a scholarship student in 1972, led a demonstration against the Yushin dictatorship in 1975 and was sentenced to eight months in prison and one year of probation.
- Human Rights Attorney In 1982, President Moon Jae-in completed the Judicial Research and Training Institute as second seat, but his history of protests against the Yushin was a reason for disqualification, and he was rejected from the appointment of a judge. He received a scouting offer from a large law firm on good terms, but he thought that 'helping people in need and finding reward' was the lawyer's job, so he eventually rejected this offer and returned to Busan to start a career as a lawyer. His relationship with the late former President Roh Moo-hyun was first established at that time. He didn't initially intend to pursue a career as a human rights lawyer, but those days were rife with student and labor movement cases. He did not avoid the workers who came to him because they were suffering from oppression, and he did his best to defend them while truly empathizing with their words. Many students who were active in the student council at that time remember that 'at that time, I was tired of seeing the face of lawyer Moon Jae-in.'
- Awakening to Politics The first teacher who awakened President Moon Jae-in's interest in politics was his father. As a child, his father bought books every time he returned from a shopping street, so he learned the fun of reading books, and for six years in middle and high school, he developed an eye for society by reading random books. My father used to explain social problems in detail when a university student from my neighbor's house came to my house, and the knowledge and insights I learned over my shoulder at that time became the basis for cultivating a critical and analytical attitude toward the absurd society.
- In 2003, President Moon Jae-in was appointed as senior secretary for civil affairs at the Blue House after former President Roh Moo-hyun was elected. Hearing that he is a human rights lawyer, he only played a role of criticizing power and had no experience in running or administering state affairs. After living in the Blue House for over a year, he resigned from his position as the chief of civil affairs, and while traveling to the Nepalese Himalayas, he heard the news of the impeachment of former President Roh Moo-hyun, and immediately returned home to take charge of all legal responses, including the formation of an impeachment delegation. He also attended the anti-impeachment candlelight vigil during the impeachment trial. When the impeachment trial was dismissed, he returned to the Blue House and served as the chief of civil society and chief of staff.
- Until the President's Friend Became President In May 2009, the sudden death of President Roh Moo-hyun shocked not only President Moon Jae-in but the entire nation. He became a permanent resident and was in charge of everything from announcing his death to presiding over a meeting for funeral arrangements. To President Moon Jae-in, former President Roh Moo-hyun remained a friend, comrade, and person who made his decision to enter politics. After that, he ran for the 19th general election in Sasang-gu, Busan, and was elected to the National Assembly, and ran as a single candidate from the pan-opposition in the 18th presidential election. From 2015 to January 2016, he also served as the party leader of the Democratic Party, along with the Democratic Party's predecessor, the New Politics and Democracy Coalition. In November 2016, he took the lead in the impeachment phase of former President Park Geun-hye, representing the will of the people who held candles, lamenting that this is a country, and was consistently with them. After that, he ran as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate under the banner of becoming a strong president in the early presidential election, which was decided by the dismissal of former President Park, and was elected as the 19th president with a 41.1% approval rating. He has risen again for the Republic of Korea, which has gone through an unprecedented political upheaval, and this time he wants to become the president of all the people. He believes that the position of the president is more meaningful as a means of changing the world rather than greed for position or power. So, he says, being president is pointless if he can't do things that change the world. In addition, since changing the world cannot be done alone, only with the support of the people, communication with the people is constantly emphasized.
“A great Republic of Korea, a just Republic of Korea, a proud Republic of Korea, a dignified Republic of Korea.
I will become a proud president of the Republic of Korea.”
3. Marriage
Kim Jeong-suk entered the Department of Vocal Music in 1974 as a student of Kyunghee University. She was introduced to her president by her friend's brother at a college festival that year when she was in her class of 72 and her friend's brother. He recalled her first meeting with President Moon, “She said she looked like Alain Delon, so I went out, but no, I quickly rolled her eyes down.” After the festival, the two of them only exchanged awkward greetings whenever they met, but their relationship began the following year, at the site of the anti-recession protests in 1975.
There is a famous anecdote that when President Moon, who was the general secretary of the student union when he was in his fourth year at Kyunghee University Law School, passed away after being struck by tear gas at the forefront of the pro-democracy protest, Mrs. Kim, who was next to her, wiped her face with a wet towel. President Moon was arrested at a rally on April 11, 1975 and was released after being sentenced to eight months in prison and one year of probation. Kim stayed by President Moon's side even when he was imprisoned in a detention center. He refers to her own love story as 'the history of meeting.
During a visit with President Moon, Ms. Kim carried a newspaper with an article about the championship of the baseball team at her alma mater, Gyeongnam High School, for President Moon, who was a baseball fanatic. President Moon said, “No matter how much I like baseball, what interest do I have in baseball news when I am imprisoned in a detention center? Still, she remembered that the wife who thought of it was cute.”
After 7 years of dating, it was Ms. Kim who first said “Let’s get married”. In addition to the '59 questions and 59 answers' with candidate Moon released by the Democratic Party on April 3rd, candidate Moon asked, “How did you make the proposal?” “Her wife did it first. I was with her friends and her wife came and all of a sudden she said, 'Jane, are you going to marry me? She said, 'Speak quickly!' She was startled and she said, 'Okay,'" she replied.
As for why Ms. Kim decided to marry President Moon, she said, "It was good that I felt free to do whatever I wanted," she said. After graduating from the Department of Vocal Music at Kyunghee University, she worked as a member of the Seoul Municipal Choir and became a full-time housewife to support her husband, who opened a law firm in Busan.
Born in Seoul in 1954, Ms. Kim Jeong-sook grew up as the second of three boys and two girls in her wealthy family. Kim Jung-sook, nicknamed 'Mr. Jung-sook the jovial' due to her lively and bright personality, is known as the biggest helper in President Moon's political life. During her last presidential election, Kim Jung-sook helped her campaign by boldly conveying her people's voice to her husband.
4. Career
- 2017.5 19th President of the Republic of Korea
- 2015.12~2016.01 Party leader of the Democratic Party of Korea
- 2015.02~2015.12 Party leader of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy
- 2012.05~2016.05 19th National Assembly member
- 2011.12 Standing Advisor to the Democratic United Party
- 2011 Innovation and Integration Executive Representative
- 2010.08~2012.04 Chairman of the Roh Moo-hyung Foundation
- 2009.09~2010.08 Executive Director, Roh Moo-hyung Foundation
- 2007.08 Chairman of the 2nd Inter-Korean Summit Promotion Committee
- 2007.03~2008.02 Head of the Presidential Secretariat
- 2005.01~2006.05 Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs, Office of the Presidential Secretariat
- 2004.05~2005.01 Senior Secretary for Civil Society, Office of the Presidential Secretariat
- 2003~2004.02 Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs, Office of the Presidential Secretariat
- 2001~2003 Busan Metropolitan Office of Education Administrative Judge
- 2001-2002 Co-representative of Solidarity for Workers
- 1996 Director of Busan YMCA
- 1995~2001.02 Representative Attorney at Law Firm Busan
- 1995-2002 Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of Busan Provincial Bar Association
- 1994 Director of Labor Counseling Center for Solidarity for Workers
- 1989~2002 Busan Democratic Uprising Memorial Foundation Director, Vice President
- 1988 Hankyoreh newspaper founding member
- 1985 Standing member of Busan Citizens' Council for Democracy
- 1984 Lecturer, Department of Maritime Law, Korea Maritime University
- 1980 Passed the 22nd Bar Exam
5. Education
- 1980 Graduated from Kyunghee University, Department of Law
- ~1971 Graduated from Gyeongnam High School
- ~1968 Graduated from Gyeongnam Middle School
~1965 Graduated from Namhang Elementary School
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