Kim Dong-yeon | |
Order: | 36th |
Office: | Governor of Gyeonggi Province |
Term Start: | 1 July 2022 |
Predecessor: | Lee Jae-myung (2021) |
Office1: | Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea |
Alongside1: | Kim Sang-gon, Yoo Eun-hae |
Term Start1: | 9 June 2017 |
Term End1: | 10 December 2018 |
Primeminister1: | Lee Nak-yeon |
Predecessor1: | Yoo Il-ho |
Successor1: | Hong Nam-ki |
Office2: | Minister of Economy and Finance |
Term Start2: | 9 June 2017 |
Term End2: | 10 December 2018 |
Primeminister2: | Lee Nak-yeon |
Predecessor2: | Yoo Il-ho |
Successor2: | Hong Nam-ki |
Office3: | Minister for Government Policy Coordination |
Term Start3: | 25 March 2013 |
Term End3: | 22 July 2014 |
Primeminister3: | Chung Hong-won |
Predecessor3: | Lim Jong-ryong |
Successor3: | Choo Kyung-ho |
Birth Date: | 28 January 1957 |
Birth Place: | Eumseong, South Korea |
Alma Mater: | Kookjae University Seoul National University University of Michigan |
Party: | Democratic |
Otherparty: | New Wave (2021–2022) Independent (until 2021) |
Signature: | Kim Dong-yeon Signature.svg |
Kim Dong-yeon (; born 28 January 1957) is a South Korean politician, who is currently the 36th governor of Gyeonggi Province since 1 July 2022. He previously served as the 4th Minister of Economy and Finance and Deputy Prime Minister from 2017 to 2018.[1]
Kim was born on January 28, 1957, in Eumseong, Chungcheongbuk-do.[2] After completion of high school, he worked as a banker at Seoul Trust Bank (which is now Hana Bank) while completing his undergraduate degree in law at the evening school of Kookjae University.[3]
He spent most of his time in government at Ministry of Economy and Finance and its preceding agencies where he began and ended his career in public service at.
In 1982 he passed the state exams for both legal affairs and administration and began working as a working-level administrator at its preceding agency. He took numerous economy and budgeting related roles in government ministries, Office of the President and presidential transition team.[4]
He was recruited by three consecutive presidents. He was Lee Myung-bak's second vice finance minister and Park Geun-hye's minister for government policy coordination. Before being promoted to Moon Jae-in's first finance minister, he was the 15th president of Ajou University for two years.[5]
Kim holds four degrees - a bachelor in law from Kookjae University, two master's in administration from Seoul National University and University of Michigan and a doctorate in administration from University of Michigan.
In August 2021, Kim announced that he would run for the 2022 South Korean presidential election. He became a candidate as an independent initially and then formed his own Party, the New Wave.[6] Kim withdrew his presidential candidacy in March 2022 after reaching an agreement with the ruling Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung on policy coalitions and joint government operations.[7] [8]
In June 2022, he was elected as the 36th governor of Gyeonggi Province during the 2022 South Korean local elections by a very narrow margin of 0.15%.[9]