Shim Wan-koo | |
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심완구 | |
Mayor of Ulsan | |
In office 15 July 1997 – 30 June 2002 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Park Maeng-woo |
Member of the National Assembly | |
In office 30 May 1988 – 29 May 1992 | |
Constituency | Ulsan Nam-gu |
In office 13 May 1985 – 29 May 1988 | |
Preceded by |
Ko Won-jun Lee Kyu-jung |
Constituency |
Ulsan Ulju-gun |
Personal details | |
Born | Daehyeon-myeon, Ulsan-gun, Japanese Korea (now Ulsan, South Korea) | 1 July 1938
Died | 8 June 2020 Seocho, Seoul, South Korea | (aged 81)
Other political affiliations |
Grand National Party
Democratic Liberal Party |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 심완구 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Sim Wan-gu |
McCune–Reischauer | Shim Wan-koo |
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]