Kim Soo-young (Korean: 김수영; Hanja: 金水英; born 5 December 1964) is a South Korean politician who served as Mayor of Yangcheon District, Seoul and its first woman mayor from July 2014 to June 2022.
[1] From 2006 to 2008, she worked as the first head of Siheung's women's job center run by Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.
[5][3] She then worked as a member of pro-democracy student organisation supportive of Kim Dae-jung's presidential candidacy.
[6] In 2011 Kim ran for Mayor of Yangcheon against Choo Jae-yup (Korean: 추재엽) in the by-election held after her husband and then-mayor, Lee Jae-hak (Korean: 이제학), was sentenced guilty by the Supreme Court for spreading lies about Choo, then the opposing candidate, during campaign.
[5][7] In 2013 Choo who has served as Mayor of Yangcheon three times non-consecutively was removed from the post after the Supreme Court sentenced him guilty for Perjury during Lee's trial and breaking election law [8] after it is reasonable to believe Lee's "lie" that Choo actually waterboarded people while working for Army Counterintelligence Corps.