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Rhyu Si-minimum
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Career
He was in the United Nations Development Programme as an Assembly member (representative) for Deogyang A district, and is a graduate of Seoul National University with a degree in Economics, and master"s from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Economics. He resigned on May 22, 2007. He declared his presidential candidacy on August 18, 2007.
He announced his retirement from politics on February 19, 2013.
After graduating Shim-in Senior High(School) in Daegu, he entered Seoul National University and served as president of the Students" Union in the 1980s. He fought against Chun Doo-hwan"s military regime to bring freedom and democracy to his nation, however, he was arrested with an accusation (the SNU Fraction case, which was made by Chun"s regime) and enlisted to the DMZ to serve a military service for 33 months.
He has become popular in a field of the Democratic movement of South of Korea, with claiming his false-charge with "The grounds of an appeal"(항소이유서) against the Seoul district court which secured by Chun"s regime. After finishing his job, the couple went to Germany to study their majors in the 1990s.
He has predicted that a gigantic scandal affiliated to the Lee Myung-bak government will be eventually publicized due to the two elections in 2012.
Politics
Before starting his political career since August 2002, he was a journalist of Dong-a Ilbo and The Hankyoreh, with having his continuous progressive and liberal attitudes. He was selected by the liberal opposition parties to run for governor of Gyeonggi-do province on May 13, 2010 In December 2011, Rhyu merged his People"s Participation Party into the Unified Progressive Party, of which he is one of the co-chairs.
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Unified Progressive Party