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Shim Wan-koo (Korean : 심완구; Hanja : 沈完求; RR : Sim Wangu;1 July 1938 –8 June 2020) [1] [2] was a South Korean politician who served as the first elected Mayor of Ulsan. He was a member of the National Assembly from 1985 to 1992.
Shim was born in Songho Village,Yaum-ri,Daehyeon-myeon,Ulsan-gun,Keishōnan-dō (South Gyeongsang Province),Korea,Empire of Japan on July 1,1938. He graduated from Sungkyunkwan University;majoring in economics.
Shim ran for the Ulsan-Ulju-gun electoral district in the 1981 South Korean legislative election and but came in third place with only 18.44% of the vote.[ citation needed ] He ran for the same electoral district in the 1985 South Korean legislative election and was elected along with Kim Tae-ho of the ruling Democratic Justice Party. [3] He ran under the Reunification Democratic Party for the Ulsan Nam-gu electoral district in the 1988 South Korean legislative election and was elected for a four-year term. He ran for the same district in the 1992 South Korean legislative election,but lost to Cha Soo-myung.
Shim was elected as Mayor of Ulsan in 1995,however as Ulsan took its current form as a metropolitan city on July 15,1997;making Shim's official term start from July 15,1997. [4]
He left the conservative Grand National Party on September 14,1998,and joined the more liberal National Congress for New Politics that was led by Kim Dae-jung. He was sentenced to jail in 2002 for accepting bribery from a construction company,but all charges against him were dropped and he was later pardoned by Roh Moo-hyun. [5]
While Shim supported conservative candidate Lee Myung-bak during the 2007 South Korean presidential election, [6] he supported liberal candidate Moon Jae-in during the 2012 South Korean presidential election. [7] He supported Song Cheol-ho's campaign for Mayor of Ulsan in 2018. [8]
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