Yoo Eun-hae
Yoo Eun-hae (Korean: 유은혜; Hanja: 兪銀惠; born 2 October 1962) is a South Korean politician who served as the Minister of Education and ex officio Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea, along with Hong Nam-ki under President Moon Jae-in from October 2018 to 9 May 2022. She is the first woman to serve as a Deputy Prime Minister in South Korea.
Yoo Eun-hae | |
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유은혜 | |
Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea | |
In office 2 October 2018 – 9 May 2022 | |
President | Moon Jae-in |
Prime Minister | Lee Nak-yeon Chung Sye-kyun Hong Nam-ki (acting) Kim Boo-kyum |
Preceded by | Kim Sang-gon |
Succeeded by | Park Soon-ae |
Minister of Education | |
In office 2 October 2018 – 9 May 2022 | |
President | Moon Jae-in |
Prime Minister | Chung Sye-kyun |
Preceded by | Kim Sang-gon |
Succeeded by | Park Soon-ae |
Member of the National Assembly | |
In office 30 May 2012 – 29 May 2020 | |
Preceded by | Baek Sung-woon |
Succeeded by | Hong Jung-min |
Constituency | Goyang C |
Personal details | |
Born | Seoul, South Korea | 2 October 1962
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | Sungkyunkwan University Ewha Womans University |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Yoo Eun-hae | |
Hangul | 유은혜 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Yu Eun-hye |
McCune–Reischauer | Yu Ŭnhye |
Yoo is the longest-serving education minister of the country. She was expected to resign and run for the governor of Gyeonggi Province but decided not to given the pandemic-disrupted education in the country.
While studying at Sungkyunkwan University, she joined pro-democracy movement against authoritarian regime of then-president Chun. She has bachelor's degree in Eastern Philosophy from Sungkyunkwan University and Master's degree in public policy from Ewha Woman's University.
She first met Moon when the then-lawyer helped her family to receive benefits from her father's overwork death. She was the spokesperson of Moon's second presidential campaign in 2017. From 2012 to 2020, Yoo served as the two-term, Democratic member of the National Assembly from Ilsan, Goyang.