page_title: Choo Mi-ae
hierarchical_section_title: Choo Mi-ae
caption_attribution_description: English: South Korean politician Choo Mi-ae at a panel event in 2015.
context_page_description: Choo Mi-ae is a South Korean politician currently serving as the Minister of Justice as well as five-term parliamentarian of Democratic Party. She is the first woman to hold the post after Kang Kum-sil who was appointed by then-president Roh, a political ally of the incumbent Moon Jae-in.
  She is also one of handful female parliamentarians who have served five or more terms at the National Assembly and the first to do so without ever being elected through proportional representation. In 1996 she became the first woman to represent a constituency in Seoul since the Constitution was last revised as well as the first female ex-judge to be elected as a parliamentarian. She has represented the same constituency since then except for four years between 2004 and 2008.
  Choo unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of her party twice in 2003 and 2008. In 2016, she became the leader of Democratic Party and stepped down in 2018. When then-candidate Moon got elected as the President of South Korea during her term, she became the first woman to be the leader of a ruling party.
context_section_description: Choo Mi-ae (Korean: 추미애; Hanja: 秋美愛; born 23 October 1958) is a South Korean politician currently serving as the Minister of Justice as well as five-term parliamentarian of Democratic Party. She is the first woman to hold the post after Kang Kum-sil who was appointed by then-president Roh, a political ally of the incumbent Moon Jae-in. 
  She is also one of handful female parliamentarians who have served five or more terms at the National Assembly and the first to do so without ever being elected through proportional representation. In 1996 she became the first woman to represent a constituency in Seoul since the Constitution was last revised as well as the first female ex-judge to be elected as a parliamentarian. She has represented the same constituency since then except for four years between 2004 and 2008.
  Choo unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of her party twice in 2003 and 2008. In 2016, she became the leader of Democratic Party and stepped down in 2018. When then-candidate Moon got elected as the President of South Korea during her term, she became the first woman to be the leader of a ruling party. Additionally, she was also the first female leader of her party and its first leader raised in TK region as well as its only leader to have served a full term of 2 years. 
  She is a Buddhist.
caption: Choo Mi-ae in 2015
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