Moon Myung-soon

Moon Myung-soon (Korean: 문명순; Hanja: 文明順; 18 October 1962), also known as Moon Myoung-soon, is a South Korean politician based in Goyang City.

In this Korean name, the family name is Moon.

Career

After graduating Seoul Girls' Commercial High School, Moon had worked at Kookmin Bank for three decades.[1] From 2008 to 2011 she led the biggest trade union of Federation of Korean Trade Unions, National Financial industry labour union (Korean: 전국금융산업노동조합),[2] as its senior vice president.[1] Moon holds three degrees - a bachelor in business administration from Korea National Open University, a LLM from Kyung Hee University and a master's in economics from Sogang University.[3]

In the 2012 election, Moon was placed as the number 23 of the proportional representation list of her party but failed to be elected.[4] In 2020 election, Moon ran for the constituency in Goyang City[5] represented by Sim Sang-jung from 2012. Although they were neck and neck in the opinion polls, Moon was defeated by Sim[6] who, according to Moon, has not done anything for the constituency but being the loud mouth and would not be supportive of making Moon Jae-in administration successful.[7]

Moon previously worked for Moon Jae-in's presidential campaigns as the chair of special committee for Financial Economy in 2012 and Financial Consumer Protection in 2017. She is now an advisor to government finance institutions - Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation and Korea Inclusive Finance Agency - and a special member of Presidential Committee for Balanced National Development. She is well known to party members for greeting then-former party leader Moon Jae-in at the Incheon International Airport by herself when he returned to Seoul from Himalayas in 2016.[8]

From 2019 Moon has served as one of vice chairs of Policy Planning Committee of Democratic Party and a member of financial stability task force of its COVID-19 committee.[9]

Electoral history
Election Year District Party Affiliation Votes Percentage of votes Results
19st National Assembly General Election 2012 Proportional representation Democratic Party 7,777,123 36.45% Lost
21st National Assembly General Election 2020 Gyeonggi Goyang A Democratic Party 39,268 27.36% Lost

References
  1. "4선고지 진보 거물에 두 정치 신예 맹추격". 고양일보 (in Korean). 2020-04-09. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  2. "금융노조·사무금융노조, 김현정 더민주 평택을 후보 '지지선언'". www.youthdaily.co.kr (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  3. "[대자보] ˝고양시에서 교통 교육 복지 프로젝트 완성하겠다˝". 대자보. 2020-04-03. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  4. "민주당 비례대표 23번 문명순, "저도 엄연한 제주인"". 헤드라인제주 (in Korean). 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  5. Shin, Mitch (2020-04-14). "Korea's election campaign proceeds despite virus". Asia Times. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  6. Herald, The Korea (2020-04-16). "Justice Party leader narrowly retains her seat". www.koreaherald.com. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  7. "문명순 "'말꾼' 심상정, 8년간 무얼 했는지 묻고 싶다"". hankyung.com (in Korean). 2020-04-04. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  8. "[4.15 핫플] 민주당 문명순 "심상정 중앙에만 몰두,,,주민들 실망 커"". www.chosun.com (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-09-19.
  9. "문명순 :: 네이버 인물검색". people.search.naver.com. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
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