Politician; 35th Presidential Chief of Staff and two-term National Assembly member
| Life | 1966 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 장흥 임씨 |
Im Jong-seok is a South Korean politician whose seat is given on Wikipedia as Jangheung Im. He was born on 24 April 1966 at Sin-gi village, Geumsan-ri, Jangheung-eup, Jangheung County, and graduated from Hanyang University in inorganic materials engineering in 1995. As he is living, only his public career is summarized neutrally.
In 1989 he was president of the Hanyang University student council and the third chairman of the National Council of University Student Representatives (Jeondaehyeop). In 1990 he was sentenced to five years in a case related to demonstrations, paroled in 1993 and fully pardoned in 1999. He was elected to the 16th National Assembly in 2000 (Seongdong, Seoul) and re-elected to the 17th.
In 2014-2015 he was Seoul's deputy mayor for political affairs, and from 2017 to 2019 he was the 35th Presidential Chief of Staff, the first under the Moon Jae-in government. He was special diplomatic adviser for the UAE in 2019-2020 and special adviser for foreign affairs and security in the Presidential Office in 2020-2022. His later activities were not checked. Political assessments differ, so only his public career is given here. He is a modern political example for the clan.
He chaired the third Jeondaehyeop and was elected to the 16th National Assembly in 2000.
He was the 35th Presidential Chief of Staff in 2017-2019. See also the Jangheung Im page.