Kim Sung-tae

Kim Sung-tae
Kim Sung-tae
김성태
Chairman of the Liberty Korea Party; Acting
	In office; 15 June 2018 – 16 July 2018
Preceded by	Hong Jun-pyo
Succeeded by	Kim Byong-joon (interim)
Member of the National Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 30 May 2008
Preceded by	Noh Hyun-song
Constituency	Gangseo B (Seoul)
Personal details
Born	23 May 1958 (age 66); Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
Political party	Liberty Korea
Spouse	Heo Deok-soon
Children	2
Alma mater	Hanyang University
Korean name
Hangul	김성태
Hanja	金聖泰
Revised Romanization	Gim Seongtae
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Sŏngt'ae

Kim Sung-tae (Korean: 김성태; Hanja: 金聖泰; born May 23, 1958) is a South Korean politician who was a labor activist.

Early life and career

Kim Sung-tae was born on 9 July 1958 in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province. He worked as a labor activist in the Federation of Korean Trade Unions as a young man.

He was elected in the 1998 local elections and served as the Seoul Metropolitan Council member of the National Congress for New Politics. Later, he moved to the Millennium Democratic Party and the Uri Party, and joined the conservative Grand National Party for the first time in 2008. Then, he ran for the 2008 legislative election and won.

After the 2016 South Korean political scandal, he defected from the Saenuri Party in December 2016 and joined the Bareun Party,^[1] but was reinstated in May 2017, before the presidential election.^[2] In November 2017, he was elected floor leader of the Liberty Korea Party. Later, In June 2018, when Hong Jun-pyo resigned his party leadership, he assumed the acting leader.