Kim Jong-min

Kim Jong-min (; born 12 May 1964) is a South Korean politician representing South Chungcheong Province's three districts - Nonsan city, Gyeryong city and Geumsan county - at the National Assembly from 2016. Before entering politics Kim studied Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National University. After graduating college, Kim worked as a political journalist for newspapers - daily Naeil and weekly Sisajournal during which he met then-presidential hopeful Roh Moo-hyun. Early political career Kim first joined politics in 2003 when he started working as one of administrators at Office of senior secretary for public affairs to the President Roh. He continued working for Roh until the end of Roh's term. In 2004 he was promoted to vice presidential spokesperson and a month later to the Roh's third presidential spokesperson becoming the youngest person to assume this post at the age of 40. Kim was Roh's first spokesperson after Roh returned to the office following Constitutional Court's ruling which turned down his impeachment voted by the parliament. In 2005 he was reshuffled to secretary for public affairs and served till the end of Roh's presidency in 2008. After serving at the Blue House for the entire Roh's presidency of five years, Kim joined in developing and running the online debate platform of Roh's supporters, "Democracy 2.0" which operated only for a short period due to Roh's suicide. He later joined Ahn Hee-jung, then-elected governor of South Chungcheong Province, whom he first met at university as his first deputy. He resigned from the post for the 2012 general election.