Ko Min-jung
고민정
Presidential Spokesperson
In office
25 April 2019 – 15 January 2020
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Preceded byPark Soo-hyun
Kim Eui-kyeom
Succeeded byKang Min-seok
Vice Presidential Spokesperson
In office
18 May 2017 – 24 April 2019
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Succeeded byHan Jung-woo
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
30 May 2020
Preceded byChoo Mi-ae
ConstituencySeoul Gwangjin B
Personal details
Born (1979-08-23) 23 August 1979
Seoul, South Korea
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseCho Ki Young
Alma materKyung Hee University
Qingdao University

Ko Min-jung (Korean: 고민정; born August 23, 1979) is a former KBS announcer previously served as the presidential spokesperson at the Blue House under President Moon Jae-in and currently serving as a National Assembly member from Seoul.

In 2004 she passed the exam and joined Announcers' Bureau of Programming Department of KBS. From 2005 to 2017 she hosted various - mostly informative, family-targeted - tv shows and two radio programmes.[1]

After resigning from the well-paid job at a national broadcaster in 2017, she worked with Moon as his spokesperson during his campaign for Democratic Party primary and 2017 presidential elections.[2] After his inauguration as the President, she continued her career with Moon as his first vice presidential spokesperson. In April 2019 she was promoted to presidential spokesperson after her predecessor resigned.[3] In January 2020 she resigned the post for upcoming 2020 general election.

In the 2020 general election, Ko defeated the former Seoul mayor and a potential presidential candidate for the opposition party, Oh Se-hoon. In 2021 she joined - as a spokesperson - the campaign of Park Young-sun, her party's candidate for Seoul mayor in 2021 South Korean by-elections where Oh is nominated by the main opposition party.

She holds Bachelor and Master's in Chinese language and literature from Kyung Hee University and Qingdao University respectively.[1]

Electoral history

Election Year District Party Affiliation Votes Percentage of votes Results
21st National Assembly General Election 2020 Seoul Gwangjin B Democratic Party 54,210 50.37% Won

Personal life

She is married to Cho Ki-young, a poet whom she met at Kyunghee University campus.

References

  1. 1 2 "인물백과 고민정" [Ko Min-jung profile] (in Korean).
  2. ↑ "Ko Min-jung named new presidential spokesperson".
  3. ↑ "Ko Min-jung named new presidential spokesperson".
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