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As of 9 p.m. on the 14th \u2014 the first day of candidate registration for parliamentary by-elections held alongside the June 3 local elections \u2014 the National Election Commission had registered 34 candidates. Those candidates reported an average of 2,056,980,000 KRW (about $1.54 million) in assets each. <\/p>\n
By declared assets, Kim Yong-nam, the Democratic Party candidate in Pyeongtaek B, ranked first with 12,770,490,000 KRW (about $9.58 million). <\/p>\n
Lee Jin-sook, the People Power Party candidate in Dalseong, was second with 8,215,390,000 KRW (about $6.16 million). Cho Guk, the candidate from the ChoGuk Innovation Party, reported 5,666,767,000 KRW (about $4.25 million), and Hwang Kyo-ahn of the Liberty and Innovation Party reported 5,037,770,000 KRW (about $3.78 million), placing third and fourth, respectively. <\/p>\n
Cho and Hwang are competing against one another in Pyeongtaek B. <\/p>\n
Hah Jung-woo, the Democratic candidate in Busan Buk-gap and a former head of Naver Cloud\u2019s AI Innovation Center who previously served as the Blue House\u2019s AI future planning chief, ranked fifth with 4,248,800,000 KRW (about $3.19 million). <\/p>\n
Excluding those top five, the remaining 29 candidates reported an average of 1,172,310,000 KRW (about $879,233) in assets. <\/p>\n
The candidate with the smallest declared assets was Shin Ji-hye of the Basic Income Party, running in Gwangju Gwangsan B, who reported 31,000,000 KRW (about $23,250). <\/p>\n
By party, the 11 Democratic Party candidates averaged 2,637,550,000 KRW (about $1.98 million); 10 People Power Party candidates averaged 1,923,400,000 KRW (about $1.44 million); and four Reform New Party candidates averaged 1,796,780,000 KRW (about $1.35 million). <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, among the registered parliamentary candidates to date, 25.9% of the male candidates have not completed mandatory military service. <\/p>\n
The National Election Commission reported that 27 of the 34 registered candidates are men, and seven of those men have not served in the military. By party, the breakdown is: Democratic Party 4, People Power Party 1, Liberty and Innovation 1, and independent 1. <\/p>\n
Specifically, the Democratic Party candidates who did not fulfill military service obligations are Song Young-gil (running in Incheon Yeonsu A), Lee Kwang-jae (Gyeonggi Hanam A), Kim Eui-gyeom (Jeonbuk Gunsan\u00b7Gimje\u00b7Buan A), and Park Hyung-ryong (Daegu Dalseong). From the People Power Party, Yoon Yong-geun, running in Chungnam Gongju\u00b7Buyeo\u00b7Cheongyang, is listed as not having completed service. <\/p>\n
Hwang Kyo-ahn, the Liberty and Innovation candidate in Pyeongtaek B, and independent Kim Jong-hoe, running in Jeonbuk Gunsan\u00b7Gimje\u00b7Buan A, also have not completed military service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As of June 14, the average wealth of 34 candidates registered for the by-election is approximately 2.056 billion won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/thumbnail\/2026\/05\/CP-2023-0299\/thumb-53e7c80d-a4b2-41df-8303-ea63aac4152a.jpg","footnotes":""},"categories":[278093],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n