Yoo Eun-hae

Yoo Eun-hae (Korean: 유은혜; born 2 October 1962) is a South Korean politician who served as the Minister of Education and ex officio Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea, along with Hong Nam-ki under President Moon Jae-in from October 2018 to 9 May 2022. She is the first woman to serve as a Deputy Prime Minister in South Korea.

Yoo Eun-hae
유은혜
Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea
In office 2 October 2018 – 9 May 2022 Serving with Hong Nam-ki
President	Moon Jae-in
Prime Minister	Lee Nak-yeon Chung Sye-kyun Hong Nam-ki (acting) Kim Boo-kyum
Preceded by	Kim Sang-gon
Succeeded by	Park Soon-ae
Minister of Education
In office 2 October 2018 – 9 May 2022
President	Moon Jae-in
Prime Minister	Chung Sye-kyun
Preceded by	Kim Sang-gon
Succeeded by	Park Soon-ae
Member of the National Assembly
In office 30 May 2012 – 29 May 2020
Preceded by	Baek Sung-woon
Succeeded by	Hong Jung-min
Constituency	Goyang C
Personal details
Born	(1962-10-02) 2 October 1962 (age 62) Seoul, South Korea
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Sungkyunkwan University Ewha Womans University
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Yoo is the longest-serving education minister of the country. She was expected to resign and run for the governor of Gyeonggi Province but decided not to given the pandemic-disrupted education in the country.^[1]

While studying at Sungkyunkwan University, she joined pro-democracy movement against authoritarian regime of then-president Chun. She has bachelor's degree in Eastern Philosophy from Sungkyunkwan University and Master's degree in public policy from Ewha Woman's University.

She first met Moon when the then-lawyer helped her family to receive benefits from her father's overwork death.^[2] She was the spokesperson of Moon's second presidential campaign in 2017. From 2012 to 2020, Yoo served as the two-term, Democratic member of the National Assembly from Ilsan, Goyang.