With Supreme Council Members Kim Jaewon, Kim Byungmin, Jo Sujin, Taeyoungho... Youth Jang Yechan

Candidate Kim Jaewon, Top Vote Share at 17.55%
Jang Yechan Achieves Highest Youth Vote Share at 55.16%

On the 8th, Kim Jae-won, Kim Byung-min, Cho Soo-jin, and Tae Young-ho were elected as Supreme Council members at the People Power Party's party convention. Jang Ye-chan was elected as the Youth Supreme Council member.

According to the vote count results of the People Power Party's 3rd party convention held at KINTEX in Ilsan, Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, candidate Kim Jae-won received a total of 160,067 votes (17.55% of total votes), becoming the Senior Supreme Council member. Following him were candidate Kim Byung-min with 146,798 votes (16.1%), candidate Cho with 120,173 votes (13.18%), and candidate Tae with 119,559 votes (13.11%). Candidate Jang, elected as the Youth Supreme Council member, received a total of 250,036 votes, showing a vote share of 55.16%.

Kim Ki-hyun, the newly appointed party leader of the People Power Party, is greeting the Supreme Council members at the 3rd Party Convention of the People Power Party held on the 8th at KINTEX in Ilsan, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi Province. From the left: Jang Ye-chan, Jo Su-jin, Kim Byung-min, Kim Ki-hyun, Kim Jae-won, Tae Young-ho. Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

Kim Jae-won, a former prosecutor, is a three-term former National Assembly member based in Daegu and Gyeongbuk (TK). He served as a Supreme Council member under former party leader Lee Jun-seok and appeared as a highly aggressive conservative panelist on various TV programs and radio shows. During the Park Geun-hye administration, he was classified as 'pro-Park' and held positions such as the ruling party's floor deputy leader and Blue House political secretary. He also served as the party's policy committee chairman and chairman of the National Assembly's budget and accounts committee.

Kim Byung-min was active as a member of the emergency committee under former emergency committee chairman Kim Jong-in in 2019 and under former emergency committee chairman Jeong Jin-seok. In the last presidential election, he served as the longest-serving spokesperson for President Yoon Seok-youl's campaign, making him a representative figure of the 'pro-Yoon' faction. He is known as a 'young leader in his 40s' and serves as the head of the Seoul Gwangjin-gu Gap party committee.

Candidate Cho, who entered the National Assembly as a proportional representative in the 21st general election, served as the Senior Supreme Council member under former party leader Lee Jun-seok in 2021. Originating from Honam, he gained recognition among conservatives while working as an anchor for Channel A's 'Direct Speech.' He earned a 'warrior' image by sharply confronting the Democratic Party on various issues in the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee.

Candidate Tae, a former official at the North Korean embassy in the UK, became disillusioned with the North Korean regime and defected to South Korea in August 2016. He ran for the Seoul Gangnam Gap district in the 21st general election and entered the National Assembly. Tae, who ran for the Supreme Council election shouting 'eradicate pro-North leftists,' attracted attention by stating, "If you let me enter the party leadership, North Korea's Kim Jong-un will be startled."

Candidate Jang, who became the Youth Supreme Council member, is known as President Yoon's first youth aide. During the presidential election, he served as the head of the Youth Headquarters at Yoon Seok-youl's central election campaign headquarters, led the Youth Communication Task Force (TF) at the Presidential Transition Committee, and served as a policy advisory committee member for the startup and venture sector at the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. He gained recognition by appearing as a pro-Yoon panelist on broadcasts.

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