1. Kim Boo-kyum is a South Korean activist and politician who served as the prime minister of South Korea from 2021 to 2022 under President Moon Jae-in.
13 Facts About Kim Boo-kyum
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Kim Boo-kyum was the former Minister of Interior and Safety from 2017 to 2019.
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Kim Boo-kyum had earlier stood for mayor of Daegu in the 2014 local elections, and received 40 per cent of the vote, a number seen at the time as unusually large in the conservative stronghold.
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Kim Boo-kyum stated in 2014 that he hoped to "overcome the barrier of regionalism".
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Kim Boo-kyum was born on 21 January 1958 in Sangju, North Gyeongsang.
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Kim Boo-kyum is the eldest of the one son and three daughters of Kim Young-ryong and Cha Sook-hui.
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Kim Boo-kyum was admitted to study political science at Seoul National University in 1976, but was expelled for taking part in protests against the Yushin Constitution in 1977, before being readmitted and expelled again for violating martial law in 1980.
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Kim Boo-kyum was later reinstated a second time, and received his degree in 1987.
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Kim Boo-kyum joined politics as one of the founders of the centre-left Hankyoreh Democratic Party in 1988.
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Kim Boo-kyum ran as the HDP candidate for Dongjak 1st constituency in the 1988 election but lost.
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Kim Boo-kyum had an intention to run in the 1992 election, but could not become a candidate.
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Kim Boo-kyum served as the Deputy Spokesperson of the party was arrested on 18 November after it was revealed that Kim received 5,000,000 won from a North Korean spy named Lee Seon-shil during the 1988 election.
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Kim Boo-kyum indicated that Kim was not related to his party in 1988; he was told that Kim did not even know that Lee was a spy.