Mun Mi-ock explained

Successor:Jeong Byun-sun
Birth Date:20 December 1968
Termend3:20 June 2017
Termstart3:30 May 2016
Constituency3:Proportional representation
Office3:Member of the National Assembly
Termend1:13 December 2018
Termstart1:20 June 2017
Successor1:Lee Kong-joo
Predecessor:Lee Jin-kyu
Office:1st Vice Minister of Science and ICT
President1:Moon Jae-in
Office1:Advisor to the President for Science and Technology
Minister:Yoo Yeong-min
Choi Ki-young
Primeminister:Lee Nak-yeon
President:Moon Jae-in
Termend:18 December 2019
Termstart:14 December 2018
Alma Mater:POSTECH
Party:Democratic
Predecessor1:Position established

Mun Mi-ock (; born 20 December 1968) is a former South Korean research professor at Yonsei University and Ewha Womans University serving as the President of Science and Technology Policy Institute from January 2021.[1] Mun previously served as President Moon Jae-in's first Science and Technology Advisor and his second Vice Minister of Science and ICT[2] - the first woman to assume both posts respectively.

Before entering politics and after leaving academia, Mun had led Planning and Policy Division of Center for Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology (WISET) from 2011 and Science Engineering Technology Cooperative (SETCOOP) from 2013 - both policy instruments of the Ministry to support Korean scientists and innovations.[3]

Mun was the last person recruited by then-party leader Moon Jae-in for the 2016 general election.[4] Mun received the number 7 on her party's proportional representation list.[5]

In 2017 Mun was appointed to the newly created post, an advisor to the president for science and technology, automatically losing her seat at the parliament which was taken by Lee Soo Hyuck, now-South Korean ambassador to the United States.[6] In 2018 she was reshuffled to Moon's second vice minister of science and ICT.

After leaving the Ministry in 2019, Mun then applied to become her party's candidate for Songpa A constituency for upcoming 2020 general election but lost.[7] In January 2021 Mun was brought back to lead one of government-funded research institutes, the Science and Technology Policy Institute.[8]

Mun holds three degrees in physics from a bachelor to a doctorate from POSTECH. She also completed postdoctoral research programmes in physics at Ewha Womans University and Yonsei University both at which she later worked as research professor.

References

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  2. Web site: [프로필] 문미옥 과기정통부 제1차관]. 2020-07-06. NewsPim. ko.
  3. Web site: 문미옥 과기정통부 1차관…물리학 박사 출신 과학인. 2020-07-06. 매일경제. ko.
  4. Web site: 2016-01-27. 문미옥, 사퇴 밝힌 문재인의 마지막 영입인사..'여성 과학기술인'. 2020-07-06. 뉴스프리존. ko.
  5. Web site: 2016-03-23. 더민주 비례7번에 문미옥 한국여성과학기술센터 기획실장(속보). 2020-07-06. 이데일리. ko.
  6. Web site: 2017-06-22. 이수혁 전 독일대사, 민주당 비례대표직 승계. 2020-07-06. JoongAng Ilbo. ko.
  7. Web site: 2020-03-12. 민주당, ‘송파갑’.... 조재희 예비후보 공천 최종 확정!’. 2020-07-06. 뉴스프리존. ko.
  8. Web site: About STEPI > History. 2021-08-10. www.stepi.re.kr.