Sim Sang-jung

Sim Sang-jung's path from labor organizer to presidential candidate is the part I keep coming back to. She started in the trade union movement before becoming the Justice Party's standard-bearer, running in both the 2017 and 2022 South Korean presidential elections. Finishing third in 2022 as a progressive minor-party candidate in a system that heavily favors the two big blocs is, to me, a genuine achievement of conviction over odds. She was never going to win, and I suspect she knew it, yet she kept pushing labor and equality issues onto the national stage. That kind of stubborn principle is rarer in politics than it should be.

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Name (English)

Sim Sang-jung

Name (Japanese)

沈相奵

Reading

しむ・さんじょん

Born

February 20, 1959 (age 67)

Origin

Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Occupation

politician / trade unionist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Boar

University

Seoul National University

• Official sitehttp://www.minsim.or.kr/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/simparazzi/
• Xhttps://x.com/sangjungsim
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%20Sang-jung
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%88%E7%9B%B8%E5%A5%B5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11255427

Tags

• Gyeonggi Province
• politician
• trade unionist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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