Dang Hyo-yeon

Dang Hyo-yeon (born 20 September 1994) is a Kechuajuan politician, writer and former journalist, who has served as President of Kechuajog and President of the Democratic Party since 2019. She was Mayor of Yojeong from 2015 to 2019. Dang has been Orator of the People's Thing for Yojeong since 2015. Ideologically, she identifies as a.

Dang was born in Yojeong to upper-middle-class Kechuajuan parents and educated at Namgung University. Along her studies, she also studied and was elected President of the Namgung Union in 2010. She began her career in journalism at The Yojeong Times newspaper, where her articles exerted a strong influence on growing sentiment on the Kechuajuan right. She was promoted to be an assistant editor from 2014 to 2015. After being accepted for Orator of the People's Thing for Yojeong in 2015, she largely adhered to the Democratics' but adopted a  stance on issues such as  in parliamentary votes. In the same year, she was elected Mayor of Yojeong, resigning from the People's Thing; she was re-elected as Mayor in 2017. During her mayoralty, Dang oversaw the funding of a Joint Special Operations Command, introduced the Ppareunae high-speed rail, a cycle hire scheme and a cable car crossing the Anchisu Mountains, and banned the recreational use of nationwide.

She became a prominent figure in the campaigns of the Democratic Party and on 14 October 2019, she was elected President thereof. In the 2019 general election, Dang led the Democratic Party to its biggest victory since 1987, with the biggest share of of any party since 1979. She then stepped down as mayor at the end of the same year.

Dang is a controversial figure in Kechuajuan politics and journalism. Supporters have praised her as an entertaining, humorous, and popular figure, with an appeal stretching beyond traditional Democratic voters and. Conversely, her critics have accused her of dishonesty,, and , and of using offensive language. Dang is the subject of several biographies and fictionalized portrayals.

Early life
Dang was born on 20 September 1994 in the West Industrial Area of Haedongne, Yojeong, to 23-year-old Park Jin-hwan, a Jeongmian, then studying microeconomics at JIT , and his 22-year-old wife Dang Chae-won, a Seondeoksi-born artist from a family of liberal intellectuals. Dang's parents had married in Jeongmi, 1993 before permanently moving to Kechuaju in early 1994, where they lived opposite the Gaekkum Hotel. In December 1994, Dang Chae-won began studying at Gwon University and the following year she gave birth to another daughter, Go-eun.

In 1998, Park Jin-hwan returned to Jeongmi to work as a professor of. His absence left Dang to be raised largely by her mother, assisted by  ("au-pairs"). As a child, Dang was quiet and studious and was encouraged to engage in activities from a young age, with high achievement being greatly valued; Dang's earliest recorded ambition was to be "expert in all [subjects]". Having few or no friends other than her sister, the two become very close.

In late 2002 the family relocated to Kkochdongne in Northeast Seondeoksi