Five-term lawmaker and first Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of the Participatory Government
Same-name figures:
김영진(金英鎭) — Politics · Nobility (pro-Japanese collaborator)
| Life | 1947 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 도강 김씨 |
Kim Yeong-jin (b. 1947) is a politician born on 17 November 1947 in Hangchon-ri, Doam-myeon, Gangjin, South Jeolla; Wikipedia gives his seat as Dogang. He graduated from Doam elementary and middle schools and Gangjin Agricultural High School, completed a public administration course at Chonnam National University's graduate school of administration and worked at the agricultural cooperative before entering politics. It is notable that he comes from Doam-myeon, an old settlement of the Dogang Kim.
He was first elected in 1988 to the 13th National Assembly for the Peace and Democracy Party in Gangjin-Wando, won the 14th and 15th terms in the same district, a fourth term on the Millennium Democratic Party proportional list in 2000, and a fifth in 2008 in Gwangju Seo-B. From 27 February to 8 July 2003 he was the 53rd Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the first under the Participatory Government.
In 1993 he shaved his head and went on a fast in Geneva over fears of US farm imports under the Uruguay Round, and in 2001 held a one-man protest against Japanese textbook distortions. He chaired the Honam committee for the science belt and the committee that pursued UNESCO Memory of the World listing of the May 18 archives. He is described as independent and out of politics since 2012. As he is living, only public career facts are given.
He began with the Peace and Democracy Party and passed through the Democratic Party, the National Congress for New Politics, the Millennium Democratic Party, the United New Democratic Party and the Democratic United Party, leaving politics as an independent after 2012. He is remembered as a politician who long dealt with agricultural issues amid changes in Honam politics.
Seokcheon village in Seokmun-ri, Doam-myeon, is known as home of the Sijik-gong branch, and the clan villages listed for Gangjin include Songdeok-ri in Gangjin-eup, Seokmun-ri in Doam-myeon and Yonghwa-ri in Sinjeon-myeon. Doam-myeon, where Kim Yeong-jin was born, is one of the places in Gangjin where the clan has lived for long.