Eun Soo-mi

Eun Soo-mi (, born 6 December 1963) is a South Korean activist and politician who served as a member of National Assembly from 2012 to 2016. She was elected as the Mayor of Seongnam in 2018, making her the first woman to hold the position.

Early life Eun was born in Jeongeup, North Jeolla, but grew in Gwanak District of Seoul. Her father was a soldier.

She earned a Bachelor's Degree of Sociology from Seoul National University. Initially, she desired to be a nun, but gave up as her parents didn't allow.

During the early of 1990s, Eun was a member of South Korean Socialist Workers' Alliance,

In the 2016 election, Eun ran for the Seongnam Jungwon District. but lost to Jung Hwan-seok at preselection. After Jung was defeated by Shin Sang-jin of Saenuri Party (then Liberty Korea Party), Eun could be selected as the candidate in this time. Nevertheless, after Jung was selected as the candidate of People's Party, Eun also lost to Shin. She received 57.6%, This controversy was reviewed by Unanswered Questions of SBS in 21 July. It was reported that her predecessor, Lee Jae-myung, was also implicated into the case. She was sued by the prosecution on 11 December.

On 2 September 2019, Eun was fined 900,000 won for violating the . Due to being fined less than 1 million won, Eun was able to maintain her mayorship. On 30 November 2021, Mayor Eun was indicted by prosecutors on charges on graft and corruption. Eun is accused of having rewarded a 450 million won streetlight replacement contract to an unidentified company in exchange for insider information during the probe into her Political Funds Act violation. The police officer who leaked the insider information is accused of having received 75 million from the company that won the contract. In addition, Eun is alleged to have helped the officer's acquittance secure a position in the municipal government. Eun was also indicted on allegations of having received gifts of cash and wine worth around 4.67 million won from an aide between October 2018 to December 2019. Eun has denied all the allegations from the prosecution.