It's that time of the newscast where we turn our attention to the individual candidates
running for the top office.
We are delving deeper into who they are as people... and what pledges they're putting
forward.
In the fourth installment of our five-part series we profile Yoo Seong-min... of the
conservative Bareun Party, who refused to be a "yes-man" when former President Park
Geun-hye was in the top office.
Yoo Seong-min is an economist turned politician... and now the presidential candidate representing
the splinter conservative Bareun Party.
The 59-year-old Yoo is a fourth-term lawmaker who followed in the political footsteps of
his late father, who was a judge and lawmaker from a district in the southeastern city of
Daegu.
Yoo's political career went through a major upheaval while he was a member of the conservative
Saenuri Party.
Yoo, who was once a close aide to Park Geun-hye, served as her chief of staff when, as a lawmaker,
she made her first run for the presidency in 2005.
He served as the floor leader for the Saenuri Party until 2015...
when Park, who was president at the time, labeled Yoo as a political traitor... for
a deal he'd brokered with the opposition on a revision to the National Assembly Act.
Thirteen days later, he resigned.
Yoo tried to run for re-election in Daegu last year as an independent... and won.
He returned to the Saenuri Party and stayed for about a year until he left to create the
Bareun Party with a group of other lawmakers who were critical of Park.
Yoo takes a hard-line approach on security and diplomacy.
Yoo has said the U.S. missile defense system THAAD must be deployed as soon as possible,
saying it's the best and only defense mechanism against North Korea's ballistic missile threats.
He believes South Korea should come up with its own deterrence measures, and has voiced
support for the redeployment of American tactical nuclear weapons, withdrawn in 1991.
He has also said the government should adopt a "neither confirm nor deny" policy when
it comes to the existence of nuclear weapons on the peninsula.
He says operations at the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex, which was suspended last
year, cannot be immediately resumed.
Yoo wants to renegotiate the wartime sexual slavery agreement struck with Japan in 2015...
to include an official apology from Japan for its past wrongdoing.
If Japan didn't agree to his terms, he would return a nine-million-dollar compensation
fund to Japan... and break off the deal.
On the economic front, Yoo says Korea should try to diversify to
reduce its reliance on China, Korea's top trading partner.
He has advocated for filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization to curb Beijing's
retaliatory measures against the THAAD system.
Going forward, it will be important for Yoo to boost his approval ratings, which have
yet to break into the double digits.
Campaigning officially starts on April 17th.
Kim Ji-yeon, Arirang News.
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