Yun Hee-suk (Korean: 윤희숙, born 7 February 1970) is a South Korean economist and politician. She was the Member of the National Assembly for Seocho A constituency from 2020 to 2021. Education She holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in economics from Seoul National University. She had also obtained a doctorate in economics at Columbia University. Career Prior to entering politics, Yun worked as a researcher and a professor at the Korea Development Institute (KDI), specialising labour, finance, income, welfare and middle class issues. Within the KDI, she also served as the Head of Department of Finance and Welfare Policy Research. She was also one of few women promoted from doctor to department head at the KDI. During this period, she harshly criticised the economic policy of the President Moon Jae-in. Prior to the 2020 election, Yun was brought into the newly-formed conservative United Future Party (UFP). She was then selected the UFP candidate for Seocho A constituency, replacing the incumbent Lee Hye-hoon who had moved to Dongdaemun 2nd constituency. In the election on 15 April, she received 62.60%, defeating the ruling Democratic candidate Lee Jung-keun. On 30 July, she delivered a speech at the National Assembly Proceeding Hall, known as "I'm a lessee." During the speech, she criticised the ruling Democratic Party for the newly-passed 3 Rental Acts. This speech was praised by another UFP MPs i.e. Hwangbo Seung-hee and Park Soo-young. On 6 August, Realmeter analysed that the speech helped the UFP to gain more supports. She was widely considered a potential candidate for the 2021 leadership election. Political positions Economy Yun is economically liberal. She is harshly critical towards the President Moon Jae-in, accusing his economic policy as "populism" since a researcher of the KDI. This gave her a nickname "Populism Fighter (포퓰리즘 파이터)". The main policies that she is criticising are minimum wage increase, 52-hour workweek and real estate policies. As an example, for the minimum wage, she cited that while Japan had increased 3% per year during a decade, South Korea has increased 30% within 2 years, in which she mentioned that labour forces like part-time and/or temporary workers will be damaged. She also accused that Moon's economic policy will lead the country to be like Venezuela or Argentina. She has a sceptical view towards Keynesian economic policies adopted by the President Moon, mentioning that the policy is actually "impossible and nonsense". She also