Kim Jong-in

Kim Chong-in (, born 7 July 1940) is a South Korean economist and politician. He was the interim chairman of the Minjoo Party of Korea from January to August 2016 and a member-elect of the National Assembly on the party's proportional list since the April 2016 parliamentary election. He was previously a member of the Assembly from 1981 to 1988, 1992 to 1994, and 2004 to 2008, each time elected by party list. He served as Minister of Health and Social Affairs under President Roh Tae-woo from 1989 to 1990. From May 2020 until April 2021, he was the leader of the main opposition People Power Party. Early life Before entering politics, Kim studied German language at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies as an undergraduate, and obtained a doctorate in economics at the University of Münster in Germany in 1972. His dissertation at Münster was titled "Possibilities and Limits of Social Policy in the Present Social–Economic Situation in the Republic of Korea". He was professor at Sogang University, and board chairman of KB Kookmin Bank, the largest private bank of Korea. Political career Conservative parties until 2015 Kim spent his early political career in the Democratic Justice Party of Presidents Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, and followed the party when it merged with two other conservative parties to form the Democratic Liberal Party in 1990.