Yoo Eun-hae

유은혜Deputy Prime Minister of South KoreaIn office
2 October 2018 – 9 May 2022PresidentMoon Jae-inPrime MinisterLee Nak-yeon
Chung Sye-kyun
Hong Nam-ki (acting)
Kim Boo-kyumPreceded byKim Sang-gonSucceeded byPark Soon-aeMinister of EducationIn office
2 October 2018 – 9 May 2022PresidentMoon Jae-inPrime MinisterChung Sye-kyunPreceded byKim Sang-gonSucceeded byPark Soon-aeMember of the National AssemblyIn office
30 May 2012 – 29 May 2020Preceded byBaek Sung-woonSucceeded byHong Jung-minConstituencyGoyang C Personal detailsBorn (1962-10-02) 2 October 1962 (age 61)
Seoul, South KoreaPolitical partyDemocraticAlma materSungkyunkwan University
Ewha Womans UniversityReligionRoman Catholicism

Yoo Eun-hae
Hangul	유은혜
Hanja	兪銀惠
Revised Romanization	Yu Eun-hye
McCune–Reischauer	Yu Ŭnhye

Yoo Eun-hae (Korean: 유은혜; Hanja: 兪銀惠; 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 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.

Election	Year	District	Party Affiliation	Votes	Percentage of votes	Results
18th National Assembly General Election	2008	proportional representation	Democratic Party	4,313,645	25.17%	Lost
19th National Assembly General Election	2012	Gyeonggi Goyang Ilsan dong-gu	Democratic United Party	60,236	51.59%	Won
20th National Assembly General Election	2016	Gyeonggi Goyang C	Democratic Party	62,886	47.73%	Won