Moon Jae-in

Moon Jae-in (; born 24 January 1953) is a South Korean politician. He was the 12th President of South Korea from 10 May 2017 until 9 May 2022. He won the majority vote in the 2017 presidential election.

Moon was the opposition leader of the Minjoo Party of Korea from 2015 to 2016. He was a member of the 19th National Assembly. He was the Democratic United Party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election after winning a majority in the party primaries. However, lost the election to Park Geun-hye.

He was formerly a lawyer and chief of staff to late President Roh Moo-hyun prior to getting into politics.

In April 2018, Moon and Kim Jong-un formerly attended the inter-Korean summit of 2018. They both agreed to formally end the Korean War before 2019.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, Moon became well known for his handling of the virus and had positive support over it. It helped his party win a historic victory in the 2020 legislative election.

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Other websites

  Moon Jae-in Camp 

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