진수희
48th Minister of Health and Welfare; National Assembly member (17th, 18th); sociologist
| Life | 1955 |
| Era | 대한민국 |
| Clan | 여양 진씨 |
Life & career
Jin Su-hui was born on 12 November 1955 in Daedeok County, South Chungcheong (now Daejeon), a politician of the Yeoyang seat. She graduated from Daejeon Girls' High School and Yonsei University's sociology department, and earned a master's in sociology at Indiana University (1982) and a doctorate at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1991).
She worked as a researcher at the Korea Development Institute and the Yeouido Institute. She entered the 17th National Assembly in 2004 as a Grand National Party proportional representative and won Seongdong-gu Gap, Seoul, in 2008.
She served as the 48th Minister of Health and Welfare from 30 August 2010 to 15 September 2011. She later held party posts with the Bareun Party, the New Conservative Party and the Future Integration Party (now People Power Party), lost the 2020 race, and has been head of the Seoul Welfare Foundation since September 2024.
From Researcher to Politician
A sociology Ph.D., she did research at KDI and the Yeouido Institute before entering the National Assembly in 2004, beginning as a proportional representative from a research background.
Minister of Health and Welfare
She served about a year as the 48th Minister of Health and Welfare. As a living person only her public career is described; specific policy assessments were not confirmed.