Yun Hee-suk

Yun Hee-suk (, born 7 February 1970) is a South Korean economist and politician. She was the Member of the National Assembly for Seocho A constituency from 2020 to 2021.

Education She holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in economics from Seoul National University. She had also obtained a doctorate in economics at Columbia University. Within the KDI, she also served as the Head of Department of Finance and Welfare Policy Research. replacing the incumbent Lee Hye-hoon who had moved to Dongdaemun 2nd constituency. In the election on 15 April, she received 62.60%, defeating the ruling Democratic candidate Lee Jung-keun. During the speech, she criticised the ruling Democratic Party for the newly passed 3 Rental Acts.

She was widely considered a potential candidate for the 2021 leadership election.

Political positions Economy Yun is economically liberal.

The main policies that she is criticising are minimum wage increase, 52-hour workweek and real estate policies. She also accused that Moon's economic policy will lead the country to be like Venezuela or Argentina. She cited an example of her elder sister who had already given up for mathematics during her school life. She believes that this kind of problem was occurred due to the standardised education system. In order to overcome this issue, she had suggested an idea, which is that an artificial intelligence (AI) provides exercises that are suitable for each student. In fact, this idea was once applied at the Introduction to Probability and Statistics subject at the KDI and no one failed at the subject.

She also analysed that the current South Korean education system has failed to innovate due to high restrictions towards e-learning and strong objections from teachers and lecturers.

Works The Betrayal of Policies (2020)

Election results General elections Year Constituency Political party Votes (%) Remarks 2020 Seocho A UFP 72,896 (62.60%) Won