[This Person] Jo Eun-hee, Seocho District Mayor, Is a Political Leap Opportunity Coming?

With District Mayor Cho and People Power Party MP Yoon Hee-sook resigning, the Seocho Gap parliamentary seat is vacant, drawing growing local interest in whether they will run in the by-election held alongside next year's presidential election.

[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Is a political leap coming for Jo Eun-hee, the Seocho District Mayor?

Mayor Jo is a grassroots politician who has received positive evaluations from local residents by discovering various innovative policies during her tenure as the elected Seocho District Mayor in the 6th and 7th terms.

It seems that a new political opportunity has come to Mayor Jo, attracting attention.

This is because Yoon Hee-sook, a member of the People Power Party and former National Assembly member for Seocho Gap district, suddenly resigned, leaving the seat vacant.

Mayor Jo has a long-standing local connection as she owns a house in Banpo, the Seocho Gap area, and during her tenure as mayor, she promoted creative projects such as ‘Seoripul Wondumak’, ‘Runway-type Crosswalks’, ‘Seocho-style Shared Daycare Centers’, ‘Support Centers for Single-person Households’, and the installation of ‘Untact Screening Clinics’. Local residents are reportedly evaluating that she has met an opportunity to make a political leap.

To challenge for the Seocho Gap National Assembly seat, Mayor Jo must secure the party nomination. Having a background as a journalist and political experience as a Blue House secretary and Seoul Deputy Mayor for Political Affairs, she is known to be quietly working to seize this political opportunity.

In particular, Mayor Jo showed her potential by placing third in the People Power Party’s Seoul mayoral primary for the April 7 by-election, following current Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon and former National Assembly member Na Kyung-won, leading to evaluations that securing the Seocho Gap nomination will not be an insurmountable challenge.

Accordingly, if Mayor Jo intends to run in the Seocho Gap National Assembly by-election held alongside next year’s presidential election, she must resign from her public office by November 9, leaving her with only about one month left in her term.

Locally, there is a mood that Mayor Jo’s candidacy for the Seocho Gap National Assembly seat is a foregone conclusion, so attention is focused on what decision she will make.

This is why local residents are paying close attention.

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