Nam In-soon

Nam In-soon (; born 5 November 1958) is a South Korean feminist activist and politician, currently a member of National Assembly representing Songpa C constituency.

Known for her feminist activism in South Korea, Nam began her involvement in the feminist cause during the late 1980s. She has been a member of the National Assembly since 2012. and deputy parliamentary leader of New Politics Alliance for Democracy, She studied Korean at Capital Women College of Education (currently Sejong University) in the late 1970s. For a while, she learned to sew and temporarily worked at a factory and the Civil Politics Forum within the National Assembly. Outside of parliament, she also held party positions within Democratic Party and its successors, the New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD) and the Democratic Party of Korea. The positions include the President of Foreign Cooperation Committee, from October 2014 to July 2015. As a committee member, she contributed to enrich human rights of soldiers including the prohibition of sexual harassment and the improvement of medical treatment system within military camps.

20th Parliament (2016-present) In 2016 election, Nam ran for the Songpa District 3rd constituency. They have a daughter named Seo Ha-nui. This was a part of double-barrelled name (similar to Spanish naming customs) campaign from the late 1990s, but she also used this name during the 2012 election. She reverted to her original name in 2015, because of systems issues and to relate more closely to people.

Electoral history