{"id":237321,"date":"2026-04-30T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/dp-picks-ex-presidential-ai-chief-spokesperson-as-candidates-in-june-by-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:15:21","slug":"dp-picks-ex-presidential-ai-chief-spokesperson-as-candidates-in-june-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/dp-picks-ex-presidential-ai-chief-spokesperson-as-candidates-in-june-by-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"DP picks ex-presidential AI chief, spokesperson as candidates in June by-elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20260430011600315\">DP picks ex-presidential AI chief, spokesperson as candidates in June by-elections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20260430011600315\">https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20260430011600315<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-30 04:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"en.yna.co.kr\">en.yna.co.kr<\/a><\/p>\n<p> SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) &#8212; The ruling Democratic Party (DP) on Thursday nominated two former senior presidential officials as candidates in the upcoming parliamentary by-elections to be held in conjunction with the local elections.<\/p>\n<p> Ha Jung-woo, former presidential secretary for artificial intelligence (AI) policy and future planning, will run for a parliamentary seat in the Buk-A<span class=\"txt-hyper\"> constituency<\/span> in Busan in the by-election on June 3.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We viewed him as the best candidate to succeed the constituency of former lawmaker Chun Jae-soo and serve as the driving force that will lead the election to victory as a native of Busan who attended elementary, middle and high school in Buk Ward,&#8221; Rep. Kang Jun-hyeon, the party&#8217;s senior spokesperson, told a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p> It will be one of the closely watched constituencies in the elections, with the competition expected to be a three-way race between Ha and Han Dong-hoon, former head of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP), who is now an independent, as well as a PPP candidate, possibly former Veterans Minister Park Min-shik.<\/p>\n<p> President Lee Jae Myung has endearingly referred to Ha as &#8220;Ha-GPT,&#8221; nicknamed after ChatGPT, a popular generative AI service developed by OpenAI. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;(If elected) we expect him to elevate the level of AI-related legislation at the National Assembly,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p> The DP also nominated former presidential spokesperson Jeon Eun-soo to run for the Asan constituency in South Chungcheong Province.<\/p>\n<p> Fourteen parliamentary seats will be up for grabs in the parliamentary by-elections to be held alongside the quadrennial local elections, potentially serving as the first major bellwether of public support for the Lee administration since its launch in June last year.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"tit-cap\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"txt-desc\">This photo shows Ha Jung-woo (L), former presidential secretary for artificial intelligence policy and future planning, and former presidential spokesperson Jeon Eun-soo (R) posing for a photo at a recruitment ceremony at the National&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20260430011600315\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DP picks ex-presidential AI chief, spokesperson as candidates in June by-elections https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20260430011600315 Publish Date: 2026-04-30&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img5.yna.co.kr\/photo\/yna\/YH\/2026\/04\/29\/PYH2026042908550001300_P4.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-237321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237323,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237321\/revisions\/237323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}