Life Summary
Won Min-kyong is the minister of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.

As the first minister of the newly established ministry under the Lee Jae-myung government, she has been given the task of addressing gender inequality and family issues amid rapidly advancing technological environments and changing values.

She was born on August 23, 1971, in Seoul.

She graduated from Seoul Jungang Girls' High School and the Department of Law at Yonsei University.

She passed the 40th National Bar Examination, completed the 30th class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, and worked as an attorney at Jaha Law Firm and as a partner attorney at One Law Partners.

She steadily worked in the fields of women’s rights and the human rights of socially disadvantaged people, serving as chair of the Women’s Rights Committee at Lawyers for a Democratic Society, specialist adviser at the Korea Women’s Hot Line, gender equality adviser to the National Assembly, member of the Gender Equality Committee at the Ministry of National Defense, non-standing commissioner at the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, and vice president of the Korean Association of Gender and Law.

In 2020, she began to show a full-fledged political move by serving as an ethics review committee member of the Democratic Party of Korea and as a member of the nomination management committee for the 21st general election.

In September 2025, she was appointed Minister of Gender Equality and Family, and in October of the same year she became the inaugural minister of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family after the ministry was renamed, taking on the state agenda of the Lee Jae-myung government together with the administration.

The Korean original may contain a point that could be clearer for translation. The phrase “In September 2025, she was appointed Minister of Gender Equality and Family, and in October of the same year she became the inaugural minister of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family after the ministry was renamed." may imply that the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family was renamed to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in October 2025, and that Won Min-kyong became its inaugural minister at that time. Because the ministry names are very similar in English, the distinction can appear less clear in translation.

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