Kim Boo-kyum

Prime Minister of South Korea

21 January 1958 Sangju, North Gyeongsang, South Korea

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Incumbent

South Korean politician In this Korean name, the family name is Kim. His Excellency The Right Honourable Kim Boo-kyum김부겸 43rd Prime Minister of South KoreaIncumbentAssumed office 14 May 2021PresidentMoon Jae-inDeputyYoo Eun-hae Hong Nam-kiPreceded by Chung Sye-kyun Hong Nam-ki (acting)Minister of the Interior and SafetyIn office 16 June 2017 – 6 April 2019Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeonPreceded by Hong Yoon-shikSucceeded by Chin YoungMember of the National AssemblyIn office 30 May 2016 – 29 May 2020Preceded by Lee Hahn-kooSucceeded by Joo Ho-youngConstituencySuseong A (Daegu)In office 30 May 2000 – 29 May 2012Preceded by Lew Seon-hoSucceeded by Lee Hack-youngConstituencyGunpo Personal detailsBorn (1958-01-21 ) 21 January 1958 (age 63) Sangju, North Gyeongsang, South KoreaCitizenshipSouth KoreanPolitical partyDemocraticOther political affiliationsHDP (1988-1991) Democratic (1991-1995) UDP (1995-1997) GNP (1997-2003) Independent (2003; 2007) Uri (2003-2007) GUDNP (2007-2008) UDP (2008) Democratic (2008-2011) DUP (2011-2013) Democratic (2013-2014) NPAD (2014-2015)Alma materSeoul National UniversityOccupationActivist, politicianKorean nameHangul김부겸 Hanja金富謙 Revised RomanizationGim BugyeomMcCune–ReischauerKim Pugyŏm Kim Boo-kyum (Korean: 김부겸 ; Hanja: 金富謙 ; RR: Kim Bugyeom; born 21 January 1958) is a South Korean activist and politician, and currently the Prime Minister since 14 May 2021. He was the former Minister of Interior and Safety from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the Member of the National Assembly for Suseong 1st constituency from 2016 to 2020 and was previously MP for Gunpo from 2000 to 2012, first for the Grand National Party (GNP) and then, from 2003, the liberal Uri Party and its successors. In the 2016 parliamentary election in Daegu, Kim defeated his Saenuri opponent Kim Moon-soo in a 62.5 percent landslide, marking the first time a member of a liberal party had been elected in that city since 1985. Kim had earlier stood for mayor of Daegu in the 2014 local elections, and received 40 percent of the vote, a number seen at the time as unusually large in the conservative stronghold. He stated in 2014 that he hoped to "overcome the barrier of regionalism".