The new floor leader Kwon Seong-dong, who took the first floor leadership of the People's Power, the next ruling party, today (8th) is a fourth-term politician from a prosecutor.



His hometown is Gangneung, Gangwon-do.



It is like the mother-in-law of President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol.



As a teenager, he played with Yoon-elect in Gangneung, and he became the most powerful person in the government after winning the presidential election.



He graduated from Gangneung Myeongryun High School and Chung-Ang University Law Department.



He passed the bar exam the year after graduating from college, completed the 17th class of the Judicial Training Institute, and was commissioned as a prosecutor in the Suwon District Prosecutor's Office in 1991.



Born in 1960, Yun is the same age as President-elect Yoon, but he is a senior in the 6th class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute.



He worked at the Chuncheon Prosecutor's Office, Seoul Prosecutor's Office, Seoul Prosecutor's Office Eastern Branch, Gwangju Prosecutor's Office, Incheon Prosecutor's Office, etc.



In 2009, he was elected as the second by-election in Gangneung, Gangwon-do, and entered politics as the 18th National Assembly member.



After that, he served in the 4th term down to the 21st general election in Gangneung.



He was classified as a pro-Lee (pro-Lee Myung-bak) family under the Lee Myung-bak administration and as a non-Park (non-Park Geun-hye) family under the Park Geun-hye administration.



He served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee under the Park Geun-hye administration, acting as a gatekeeper for bill handling from 2016 to 2018.



Until his third term, he was known as a 'strong' ruling party politician who prevented attacks from the opposition party mainly through the activities of the Steering Committee and Judiciary Committee.



The decisive moment that floor leader Kwon received political attention was the impeachment phase of former President Park Geun-hye.



At the time, he was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Saenuri Party (predecessor to the People's Power) and took on the role of the prosecutor in the impeachment trial.



He suddenly burst into tears while reading his final statement as a member of the National Assembly's prosecution on the day of the final pleading.



During the impeachment phase, he left the Saenuri Party, founded and joined the Bareun Party, led by non-Bakists, and was reinstated as the Liberty Korea Party (the predecessor of the people's power) immediately after the 2017 presidential election.



He faced the humiliation of losing the nomination ahead of the 2020 general election.



He later left the party and ran for Gangneung as an independent, wearing the badge of a 4th term member of the National Assembly and returning to his hometown.



The turning point in Kwon's political career was the meeting with President-elect Yoon.



The two were childhood friends, but had never worked together as adults. On May 29 last year, they had dinner in Gangneung, the constituency of floor leader Kwon, and 'coincidence'.



This was also a signal for President-elect Yoon's political participation.



After confirming that Yoon-elect would challenge the presidency, floor leader Kwon closely supported Yoon-elect, who was a political rookie, from that day on joining the party, the primary campaign, and the presidential campaign as a candidate.



He is said to have held himself in charge of advice and bitterness at every turn in his life.



In particular, after his candidacy, he served as the secretary-general of the candidate and the party secretary-general, consolidating his position as a key aide to President-elect Yoon.



Afterwards, the Party Election Countermeasures Committee was disbanded amidst the controversy over 'Yun Hak-kwan' (a key person in charge of Yoon Seok-yeol), and he gave up all his posts, including the secretary-general.



However, within the party, it has been known as the 'core of the core', which frequently exchanges opinions with President-elect Yoon on major political issues as well as during the election process.



Earlier this year, the Supreme Court was acquitted of the Kangwon Land hiring corruption case, which also washed away the legal burden.



(Photo = National Assembly Photo Reporters, Yonhap News)