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Yun Hee-suk
Yun Hee-suk (Korean: 윤희숙, born 7 February 1970) is a South Korean economist and politician. She was the Member of the National Assembly for Seocho A constituency from 2020 to 2021. EducationShe holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in economics from Seoul National University.[1][2][3] She had also obtained a doctorate in economics at Columbia University.[1][2][3] CareerPrior to entering politics, Yun worked as a researcher and a professor at the Korea Development Institute (KDI), specialising labour, finance, income, welfare and middle class issues.[4] Within the KDI, she also served as the Head of Department of Finance and Welfare Policy Research.[4] She was also one of few women promoted from doctor to department head at the KDI.[4] During this period, she harshly criticised the economic policy of the President Moon Jae-in.[1][2][3] Prior to the 2020 election, Yun was brought into the newly formed conservative United Future Party (UFP).[1][2][3] She was then selected the UFP candidate for Seocho A constituency,[1][5] replacing the incumbent Lee Hye-hoon who had moved to Dongdaemun 2nd constituency. In the election on 15 April, she received 62.60%, defeating the ruling Democratic candidate Lee Jung-keun.[1][3] On 30 July, she delivered a speech at the National Assembly Proceeding Hall, known as "I'm a lessee."[6][7] During the speech, she criticised the ruling Democratic Party for the newly passed 3 Rental Acts.[6][7] This speech was praised by another UFP MPs i.e. Hwangbo Seung-hee and Park Soo-young.[7] On 6 August, Realmeter analysed that the speech helped the UFP to gain more supports.[8] She was widely considered a potential candidate for the 2021 leadership election.[9] Political positionsEconomyYun is economically liberal.[1] She is harshly critical towards the President Moon Jae-in, accusing his economic policy as "populism" since a researcher of the KDI.[1][2][3] This gave her a nickname "Populism Fighter" (포퓰리즘 파이터).[1][2][3][10] The main policies that she is criticising are minimum wage increase, 52-hour workweek and real estate policies.[5][10] As an example, for the minimum wage, she cited that while Japan had increased 3% per year during a decade, South Korea has increased 30% within 2 years, in which she mentioned that labour forces like part-time and/or temporary workers will be damaged.[11] She also accused that Moon's economic policy will lead the country to be like Venezuela or Argentina.[11] She has a sceptical view towards Keynesian economic policies adopted by the President Moon, mentioning that the policy is actually "impossible and nonsense".[11] She also added that South Korea needs a leadership like Margaret Thatcher.[10][11] EducationDuring a parliamentary speech on 30 July 2020, Yun criticised the education policy of Moon's government.[12][13] She cited an example of her elder sister who had already given up for mathematics during her school life.[12][13] She believes that this kind of problem was occurred due to the standardised education system.[12][13] In order to overcome this issue, she had suggested an idea, which is that an artificial intelligence (AI) provides exercises that are suitable for each student.[12][13] In fact, this idea was once applied at the Introduction to Probability and Statistics subject at the KDI and no one failed at the subject.[13] She also analysed that the current South Korean education system has failed to innovate due to high restrictions towards e-learning and strong objections from teachers and lecturers.[12][13] Works
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