Nam Kyung-pil (; born 20 January 1965) is a South Korean politician who served as the 34th governor of

Gyeonggi Province Gyeonggi Province (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea. Seoul, the nation's largest city and capital, is in the heart of the area but has been separately administered as a provincial-level ''special city'' since 1946. Incheon, ...

from 2014 to 2018. Before his election, he had been a member of the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

since 1998, representing

Paldal District Paldal District () is the central district of the city of Suwon in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Administrative divisions Paldal District is divided into the following "''dong''"s. *Godeung-dong () *Hwaseo-dong (), divided in turn into Hwaseo ...

. In 2016, he left the

Saenuri Party The Liberty Korea Party () was a conservative political party in South Korea that was described variously as right-wing, right-wing populist, or far-right. Until February 2017, it was known as the Saenuri Party (), and before that as the Hanna ...

because of President

Park Geun-hye Park Geun-hye (; ; born 2 February 1952) is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 until Impeachment of Park Geun-hye, she was removed from office in 2017. Park was the first and to date only woman ...

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. He helped establish the new

Bareun Party The Bareun Party () was a conservative political party in South Korea, announced on 27 December 2016 with the defection of 29 anti-Park Saenuri Party lawmakers. It was known as the Conservative New Party for Reform until 8 January 2017. Hist ...

with other conservative politicians who left Saenuri.

National Assembly

On 21 July 1998, there was a by-election in

to replace former member, who was also his father, Nam Pyeong-woo, who died on 13 March 1998. Nam won the by-election with 21,356 votes. He had represented Paldal District until 15 May 2014, weeks before the gubernatorial election.

2017 presidential election

On 25 January 2017, Nam declared that he would run for the president of South Korea in 2017. Nam's major commitment was to change South Korea's military conscription service to volunteer military system. He was defeated in his party's primary by his sole opponent,

Yoo Seong-min Yoo Seong-min (; born 7 January 1958), also known as Yoo Seung-min, is a South Korean economist and politician. Yoo is a former member of the National Assembly (South Korea), National Assembly and was the Bareun Party's presidential nominee in ...

MP.

References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nam, Kyung-pil 1961 births Living people Bareun Party politicians Governors of Gyeonggi Province Members of the National Assembly (South Korea) People from Yongin Politicians from Gyeonggi Province Yale School of Management alumni Yonsei University alumni Uiryeong Nam clan