Kim Moon-soo

Kim Moon-soo (born August, 1951) is a South Korean politician, the current governor of Gyeonggi-do. He is a member of the Grand National Party and has been harshly critical of the Roh Moo-hyun administration's stance on human rights in North Korea; in his third term in the National Assembly he submitted the North Korean Human Rights Bill Enactment on the 60th anniversary of Korean liberation from Japan. [http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk02500&num=251]

After entering the College of Economics at Seoul National University, he was expelled by the government for denouncing government corruption under the authoritarian regime of Park Chung-hee, an experience that radicalized him. He worked on a farm for several years, and was again expelled from college in 1974. He would spend the next two decades as a textile worker and union organizer; he was arrested in 1980, when he claims to have been tortured, and again in 1986 for calling for changes to the constitution, and was sentenced to two and half years in prison.

In 1990, after his release from prison and with the country democratizing, he entered Seoul National a third time and graduated in 1994. He won his first election in April 1996, representing Bucheon in the National Assembly as a member of the conservative GNP.

External links

*ko icon [http://www.kimmoonsoo.or.kr/ Official homepage]
* [http://gopkorea.blogs.com/flyingyangban/2006/01/text_of_kim_moo.html Text] of a speech Kim gave at the North Korean Human Rights Conference, December 9, 2005.
*ko icon [http://blog.naver.com/one2only?Redirect=Log&logNo=80008575507 A journalist's profile of Kim Moon-soo] , describing his ordeals under the military governments.
* [http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200605/kt2006053117472611990.htm "Who Is Kyonggi Governor-Elect?"] The Korea Times, May 31, 2006.