[22nd General Election] Yang Bu-nam Elected in Gwangju Seo-gu Eul "Will Become Seo-gu's Guardian"

Yang Bu-nam, the Democratic Party candidate for Seo-gu (Eul), Gwangju Metropolitan City, will enter the 22nd National Assembly.

According to the Central Election Commission on the 11th, Yang secured 71.87% of the votes as of 12:45 a.m., comfortably surpassing Kang Eun-mi, the Green Justice Party candidate, who received 14.46%.

Yang Bu-nam, the Democratic Party candidate for Seo-gu Eul, Gwangju Metropolitan City, is cheering as his election victory is confirmed.
[Photo by Yang Bu-nam Election Office]

Kim Yoon, the People Power Party candidate, followed with 7.57%, Kim Hye-jung of the Progressive Party with 4.57%, Choi Hyun-soo of the Reform New Party with 1.23%, and Kim Cheon-sik of the Christian Party with 0.28%.

Yang Bu-nam was born in Damyang-gun, Jeollanam-do, and graduated from Damyang Technical High School (1st class) and the Department of Law at Chonnam National University. He passed the 31st Judicial Examination in 1989, completed the 22nd Judicial Research and Training Institute, and entered the prosecution as a junior prosecutor at the Seoul District Prosecutors' Office in 1993. He later served as Chief of the Criminal Division at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, Chief Prosecutor of Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office, and Chief Prosecutor of Busan High Prosecutors' Office.

He joined the Democratic Party in 2021 and was appointed co-chairman of the party's Legal Committee alongside Representative Kim Seung-won the following year. During the last presidential election, he served as the head of the legal support team for Lee Jae-myung's campaign and became known as Lee Jae-myung’s "bodyguard."

Yang said, “I will definitely restore the regressed democracy, create a fair society, a greater Gwangju, and a just country,” adding, “I will humbly accept severe criticism and do my best so that the Democratic Party can regain the trust of the people and receive even more love from the public.”

He continued, “Over the past two years, I have traveled around the region, met many people, and listened to various opinions,” promising, “I will remember the many demands and tasks you long for and work hard in the National Assembly to keep my promises to you.”

Furthermore, he added, “I will transform from Lee Jae-myung’s bodyguard to the bodyguard of Seo-gu,” and “I will definitely open a new future for a country that the people desire and for Seo-gu, Gwangju.”