Certified labor attorney and first woman to head a labor inspection division and branch office at the Ministry of Labor; member of the 17th National Assembly
| Life | 1946 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 아주 신씨 |
Shin Myeong (申洺, born 1946) is a South Korean certified labor attorney and 17th National Assembly member of the Aju Shin clan. Born on 17 February 1946 in Yeongdong, North Chungcheong, she graduated from Daejeon Girls' High School and Chung-Ang University's social welfare department, took a bachelor's degree in public administration at the Korea National Open University, earned master's degrees in social welfare and law at Chung-Ang University's graduate school and completed doctoral coursework in law.
At the Ministry of Labor she was the first woman to head the Seoul Central labor inspection division and the Seoul Gwanak branch office, and was chief of the unemployment benefits division and director for employment equality and working women's policy. She held posts in labor and women's policy, including public-interest member of the National Labor Relations Commission, secretary-general of the Korea Labor Education Institute, chair of the Korea Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education and auditor of the Korea Employment Promotion Agency for the Disabled.
In politics she became a 17th National Assembly member on the proportional list of the Uri Party, sitting on the Administration and Home Affairs, Environment and Labor, and Women's committees. She later served as a party council member and Gyeonggi women's chair in successor parties, became standing adviser of the Democratic Party in January 2016 and election committee chair in March, and left the party on 3 June that year. She also served as deputy chair of the Women's Committee of the Constitutional Assembly Association, co-representative of Women Legislators of Korea and vice president of the Jogye Order's central lay association.
Her signature career point is being the first woman to head the Seoul Central labor inspection division and the Seoul Gwanak branch office at the Ministry of Labor, after which she became a director responsible for employment equality and working women's policy.
In the 17th Assembly she sat on the Administration and Home Affairs, Environment and Labor and Women's committees, and later held posts in women's political groups and a Buddhist lay organization.
Studying social welfare and law, she made labor, welfare and women's policy her specialty, and was also active in religious and research circles as a standing committee member of the Jogye Order's self-reflection movement, vice president of its central lay association and head of an institute for work and leisure culture.
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