Yoo Eun-hae

Yoo Eun-hae (Korean: 유은혜; born 2 October 1962) is a South Korean politician who served as the Minister of Education and ex officio Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea, along with Hong Nam-ki under President Moon Jae-in from October 2018 to 9 May 2022.

She was expected to resign and run for the governor of Gyeonggi Province but decided not to given the pandemic-disrupted education in the country.

[1] While studying at Sungkyunkwan University, she joined pro-democracy movement against authoritarian regime of then-president Chun.

She first met Moon when the then-lawyer helped her family to receive benefits from her father's overwork death.

From 2012 to 2020, Yoo served as the two-term, Democratic member of the National Assembly from Ilsan, Goyang.