Park Yong-jin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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South Korean politician
Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1971
Place of Birth: Jangsu County, North Jeolla Province, South Korea
Profession: politician
Nationality: South Korea
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
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About Park Yong-jin
- Park Yong-jin (Korean: ???; Hanja: ???; born 17 April 1971) is a South Korean labor activist and politician in the liberal Minjoo Party of Korea.
- He was elected member of the National Assembly for Gangbuk, Seoul, in the April 2016 parliamentary elections. Park was a founding member of the left-wing Democratic Labor Party, standing unsuccessfully as a parliamentary candidate in the Gyeongbuk B constituency in 2000 and serving as the party's spokesman from 2004.
- He stayed with the DLP from its establishment in 2000 until 2008, when the party's pro–labor rights People's Democracy faction parted ways with the nationalist National Liberty faction.
- Park followed the PD group to the splinter New Progressive Party.
- He stood for the Assembly again as an NPP candidate in Gangbuk B in the parliamentary election that year, but was defeated a second time, garnering 11.8 percent of the vote.In 2012, Park changed his affiliation again to the main liberal Democratic United Party.
- He became head of public relations for the Democratic Party—as the DUP renamed itself—in 2014, but resigned following the 2014 by-elections, 30 days after assuming the office.
- He won Gangbuk B for the Minjoo Party, the Democratic Party's successor, in the 2016 elections.
- He will enter the National Assembly on 30 May 2016. A labor advocate, Park has been imprisoned multiple times for his activism.
- He spent several months in prison after taking part in a sympathy strike with railway workers in 1994, and was imprisoned again after participating in protests against employee cutbacks at Daewoo in 2001.
- He was eventually released in April 2003 after over two years in detention.Born in Jangsu County in North Jeolla, Park studied sociology at Sungkyunkwan University.
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