Shin Ji-hye (, born ) is the former leader and current supreme council member of the Basic Income Party. She co-founded the party alongside Yong Hye-in. Prior to entering politics, she engaged in volunteer work such as assisting with the bathing of children with disabilities and elderly people living alone and worked as a study room teacher in a shantytown in Gangnam. She is a native of Busan.
Education
Attended Tongyeong Girls' Middle and High School. Attended Ewha Womans University, sociology.
History She served as Secretary General of the Goyang branch of the Peace Camp.
Ahead of the 2016 South Korean legislative election, she served as the chairman of the Goyang-Paju Party Council for the Labor Party. In the 2016 South Korean legislative election, she ran as the Labor Party candidate for Goyang A.
In 2019, she, alongside Yong Hye-in, was elected as leader of the Labor Party. However, later that year she resigned from the role to found the Basic Income Party.
Following the founding of the Basic Income Party, she became Standing Committee Chairperson of the Gyeonggi Provincial Chapter of the party.
On 22 February 2020, she was elected as a board member of the Basic Income Korea Network.
On 9 June 2020, she was elected as the 2nd Standing Representative of the Basic Income Party. Her term as leader expired on 4 June 2022.
In December 2021, she was elected as Standing Chairperson of the Seoul City Chapter of the Basic Income Party.
She has also been serving as a spokesperson for the Basic Income Party.
In 2024, she was elected as a member of the Basic Income Party supreme council. In 2026, she was re-elected as a member of the supreme council.
Authored works
Women Who Form Parties. Landscape of Knowledge, 26 March 2020.
Election results Year Election Legislature Office Electoral district Party Votes Vote share Position Result 2014 Local elections 9th Provincial councillor 3rd electoral district, Goyang, Gyeonggi Labor Party 2,373 5.02% 3rd Lost 2016 General election 20th Member of the National Assembly Goyang A, Gyeonggi Labor Party 1,992 1.48% 4th Lost 2018 Local elections 10th Provincial councillor Gyeonggi Province Labor Party 18,034 0.30% 1st proportional representative Lost 2020 General election 21st Member of the National Assembly Goyang C, Gyeonggi Basic Income Party 2,058 1.27% 3rd Lost 2021 By-election 38th Mayor Seoul Basic Income Party 23,628 0.48% 5th Lost 2022 Local elections 39th Mayor Seoul Basic Income Party 12,619 0.28% 4th Lost 2026 By-election 22nd Member of the National Assembly Gwangsan B, Gwangju Basic Income Party 3,075 3.24% 5th Lost
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