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Sim Sang-jung

沈相奵　/　しむ・さんじょん

Politician from South Korea

February 20, 1959 (age 67)　・　Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Gyeonggi Province
politician
trade unionist

My Take

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.

Overview

Sim Sang-jung (Korean: 심상정; born 20 February 1959) is a South Korean labor rights activist and former politician. She was one of the five major presidential candidates in the 2017 South Korean presidential election, running as the Justice Party's nominee. She again ran as the Justice Party's nominee in the 2022 presidential election, finishing in 3rd place.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Sim Sang-jung
Name (Japanese): 沈相奵
Reading: しむ・さんじょん
Born: February 20, 1959 (age 67)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Boar
Origin: Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: politician / trade unionist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Seoul National University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Official sitehttp://www.minsim.or.kr/
Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/simparazzi/
Xhttps://x.com/sangjungsim
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%88%E7%9B%B8%E5%A5%B5

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