11 Facts About Park Yong-jin

Park Yong-jin is a South Korean labor activist and politician in the liberal Minjoo Party of Korea.

Park Yong-jin was elected member of the National Assembly for Gangbuk, Seoul, in the April 2016 parliamentary elections.

Park Yong-jin followed the PD group to the splinter New Progressive Party.

Park Yong-jin stood for the Assembly again as an NPP candidate in Gangbuk B in the parliamentary election that year, but was defeated a second time, garnering 11.8 percent of the vote.

In 2012, Park Yong-jin changed his affiliation again to the main liberal Democratic United Party.

Park Yong-jin won Gangbuk B for the Minjoo Party, the Democratic Party's successor, in the 2016 elections.

Park Yong-jin will enter the National Assembly on 30 May 2016.

Park Yong-jin spent several months in prison after taking part in a sympathy strike with railway workers in 1994, and was imprisoned again after participating in protests against employee cutbacks at Daewoo in 2001.

Park Yong-jin was eventually released in April 2003 after over two years in detention.

Park Yong-jin stood as a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential primary candidate selection for the 2022 presidential election.

Park Yong-jin lost the election to Lee Jae-myung who became the party's candidate for the 2022 presidential election.