Lee So-young (lawyer)


Lee So-young is a South Korean politician and lawyer.
After passing the Bar exam in 2009 and completing her training at Judicial Research and Training Institute in 2012, she worked as a lawyer at Kim & Chang, arguably the best law firm in Seoul. She revealed that she decided to start her legal career at Kim & Chang due to its sizable department specialised in environment.
After five years she quit the firm and founded an NGO dedicated to solving environmental issues. She coordinated "Coal finance" movement with civil societies in 2018 which resulted in some public funds divest from coal-related projects. She took policy-advisory roles to the Moon Jae-in government participating in President's National Council on Climate Change and Air Quality, Prime Minister's National Green Growth Committee and Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's New and Renewable Energy Policy Council.
She was recruited by the ruling party, Democratic Party of Korea, for the 2020 general election. She defeated two former mayors of Uiwang and Gwacheon in the election.
Lee holds a bachelor's degree in law from Sungkyunkwan University and completed postgraduate programme on environment law at Seoul National University.

Electoral history