Kim Boo-kyum

His Excellency Kim Boo-kyum
김부겸
43rd Prime Minister of South Korea
In office 14 May 2021 – 11 May 2022
President	Moon Jae-in
Deputy	Yoo Eun-hae Hong Nam-ki
Preceded by	Chung Sye-kyun Hong Nam-ki (acting)
Succeeded by	Choo Kyung-ho (acting) Han Duck-soo
Minister of the Interior and Safety
In office 16 June 2017 – 6 April 2019
Prime Minister	Lee Nak-yeon
Preceded by	Hong Yoon-shik
Succeeded by	Chin Young
Member of the National Assembly
In office 30 May 2000 – 29 May 2012
Preceded by	Lew Seon-ho
Succeeded by	Lee Hack-young
Constituency	Gunpo
In office 30 May 2016 – 29 May 2020
Preceded by	Lee Hahn-koo
Succeeded by	Joo Ho-young
Constituency	Suseong A (Daegu)
Personal details
Born	(1958-01-21) 21 January 1958 (age 66) Sangju, North Gyeongsang, South Korea
Citizenship	South Korean
Political party	Democratic
Other political affiliations	HDP (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 mater	Seoul National University (BA) Yonsei University (MPA)
Occupation	Activist, politician
Signature
Korean name
Hangul	김부겸
Hanja	金富謙
Revised Romanization	Gim Bugyeom
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Pugyŏm

Kim Boo-kyum (Korean: 김부겸; Hanja: 金富謙; RR: Gim Bugyeom; born 21 January 1958) is a South Korean activist and politician, who served as the Prime Minister of South Korea from 2021 to 2022. 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,^[1] 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 per cent landslide, marking the first time a member of a liberal party had been elected in that city since 1985.^[2] Kim had earlier stood for mayor of Daegu in the 2014 local elections, and received 40 per cent 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".^[3]