David Eun Seok Ryu (Korean: 유은석; born 1975) is an American politician, who served as the Los Angeles City Councilman for District 4 from 2015 to 2020.

[6] Ryu's father was the editor in chief of the Korean Street Journal — a newspaper based in Los Angeles, and his mother worked as a nurse.

[citation needed] Ryu became a trained crisis intervention mediator with the County of Los Angeles and went into South LA and East LA with Nate Redfern, a member of the Long Beach Insane Crips gang, to broker peaceful resolutions between black customers and immigrant store owners.

[11] Ryu served as Senior Deputy to Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Burke where worked on issues and policy for mental health, alcohol & drug abuse, HIV-AIDS, and public health, and later worked as a special investigator for Los Angeles County's Auditor-Controller.

[12] Ryu worked at the Kedren Acute Psychiatric Hospital and Community Health Center in South Los Angeles.

The case was dismissed before reaching a preliminary hearing when the district attorney's office said it was unable to proceed within the required time.

[17] In the March 3, 2020 primary, Ryu faced urban planner Nithya Raman and screenwriter Sarah Kate Levy.

[31] Following a protest on May 30, 2020 in the Fairfax district just outside of Council District Four, where Los Angeles police officers were filmed clashing violently with protestors, Ryu and council member Curren Price introduced legislation requesting a "thorough review" of police tactics used by LAPD as well as all complaints filed against LAPD for their use of force during the protest.

The law protects storage unit leasees from losing their belongings even if they can't make monthly payments during the pandemic.