Rhyu Si-min


Rhyu Si-min is a South Korean politician who served as the 44th Minister of Health and Welfare from February 2006 to May 2007. 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 in the UNDP as an Assembly member 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 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.
He announced his retirement from politics on February 19, 2013.

Career

After graduating 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 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 Korea, with claiming his false-charge with '' against the Seoul district court which secured by Chun's regime.
After the 1987 election, he married his colleague, Dr. Han Gyeong-hye, an SNU graduate in Mathematics on November 1988, and served as an aide to Lee Hae Chan for 2 years. 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.
Since 2019, Rhyu has been the host of a YouTube show and podcast called "Alileo" which literally means "I want you to know".