Seoul City Councilman Kwon Soo-jeong, a 48-year-old Asiana Airlines flight attendant worker, declared a run for Mayor of Seoul at the National Assembly on the 11th.
Rep. Kwon declared a run for the day and said, “We will take a new path to completely revise Seoul.”
As a pledge to run for mayor, he promoted’dismantling Seoul’. Rep. Kwon said, “We will dismantle Seoul by appropriately optimizing the population of Seoul and implementing a Seoul-led balanced development strategy,” and “We will become a mayor that takes the lead in’relocating the capital.’
In order to dismantle the university’s concentration in Seoul, it announced that it will implement various housing security systems, including the promotion of the’integrated network of national and public universities’, the introduction of a Seoul-type housing pension system, and expansion of the’local relocation program’.
Along with this, it also revealed a plan to establish a’deputy labor mayor’ to create a’pro-labor Seoul government’ to realize the human rights of workers and workplace democracy.
Rep. Kwon also decided to establish the Gender Policy Bureau and the Seoul Gender Safety Promotion Agency, saying, “We will become the city’s first gender equality mayor.” It also revealed a plan to hold the’queer parade’, which is at the center of controversy every year, with the official sponsorship of the Seoul Metropolitan Government.
On the other hand, Rep. Kwon criticized the running for mayor of Seoul by a large-scale politician who had been referred to as’president Jamryong’ or had already run for mayor of Seoul.
Rep. Kwon said, “Candidate Park Won-soon ran for the position that Mayor Oh Se-hoon refused to serve free meals, but failed to fill his term. At that time, the person who united with Mayor Park Won-soon was Candidate Chul-soo Ahn, and the person who defeated the independent candidate Park Won-soon and the unification contest was Minister Park Young-sun. The person who defeated Park Won-soon by competing with the Pan-Democratic Party camp candidate is former lawmaker Na Gyeong-won,” he criticized the candidates currently being discussed.
“Then, mayor Park Won-soon, who was elected mayor of Seoul for 10 years after being elected, was unable to fill his term due to a sexual harassment case, so he was elected by default,” he said. “This is all about 10 years ago and 2011.” In addition, he criticized “the city of Seoul has become a bad situation, but why is it that only politicians remain the same?” and appealed for support by saying, “There is no hope for repeating the stories of old people.”
Rep. Kwon joined the city council in 2018 as a member of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, a member of the 10th Justice Party, and served as the chairman of the Asiana Airlines union committee from 2010 to 2013, and the female chairman of the KCTU women’s committee from 2013 to 2014.