Choo Mi-ae

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Choo Mi-ae (Korean: 추미애; born 23 October 1958) is a South Korean politician who has served as the governor of Gyeonggi Province since 2026. A member of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), she was the party's leader from 2016 to 2018. Choo also served as the minister of justice from 2020 to 2021. She is the first woman to hold the post after Kang Kum-sil who was appointed by then-president Roh Moo-hyun, a political mentor of the incumbent Moon Jae-in. She is also one of handful congresswomen who have served five or more terms at the National Assembly and the first to do so without ever being elected through proportional representation. In 1996, she became the first woman to represent a constituency in Seoul since the Constitution was last revised as well as the first female ex-judge to be elected as a congresswoman. She has represented the same constituency since then except for four years between 2004 and 2008. Choo unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of her party twice in 2003 and 2008. In 2016, she became the leader of Democratic Party. When Moon Jae-in got elected as the President of South Korea during her term in 2017, Choo became the first woman to be the leader of a ruling party. In 2018, she became the first leader of her party to complete its fixed term of two years. Additionally, she was the first female leader of her party and its first leader raised in TK region. Choo was elected Governor of Gyeonggi Province in the 2026 South Korean local elections with a comfortable 16-point margin, and will become the first female head of a South Korean first-level administrative region government in the history.