Kim Deok-ryong (金德龍, born April 6, 1941) is a South Korean student activist and politician. A five-term member of the National Assembly, he served in the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th National Assemblies. He is from Iksan.
Kim Deok-ryong (金德龍, born April 6, 1941) is a South Korean student activist and politician. A five-term member of the National Assembly, he served in the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th National Assemblies. He is from Iksan.
주요 이력
As the head of the Seoul National University student council, he led student activism. In 1965 he opposed the Korea–Japan Treaty and took part in the June 3 Uprising, for which he was imprisoned and later released. During the rule of Park Chung-hee, he was jailed four times. In 1970 he entered politics as an aide to New Democratic Party leader Kim Young-sam, and he subsequently worked as an opposition politician. In 1988 he was elected to the 13th National Assembly and was re-elected to the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th Assemblies, serving five terms in total. In 1990, when Kim Young-sam joined the three-party merger, he followed Kim into the Democratic Liberal Party, and he was active in the New Korea Party and the Grand National Party. During the opposition activities of the New Democratic Party and the Unification Democratic Party, he was, together with Kim Dong-yeong, Seo Seok-jae, and Choi Hyung-woo, a close associate of former party leader Kim Young-sam.
After the launch of the Civilian Government in 1993, he served Kim Young-sam closely. In 1993 and 1996 he served as First Political Affairs Minister, and under the Pragmatic Government of Lee Myung-bak he served as a special presidential aide (minister-level). He is well known by the English initials "DR" as a nickname.1
인물과 경력
생애 초반
출생과 수학
Kim Deok-ryong was born in Iksan County, Jeonbuk, and in 1957 graduated from Namseong Middle School in Iksan city (Iri). That same year he entered . He graduated from Gyeongbok High School in February 1960 and that year entered the College of Liberal Arts, Department of . He was later elected head of the of the Seoul National University College of Liberal Arts and then elected chairman of the university-wide student council.
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However, in 1964 he opposed the humiliating diplomacy with Japan and took part in the June 3 Incident, which ultimately led to his withdrawal from Seoul National University.
6.3 사태 전후
In June 1964, he opposed the Park Chung-hee government's normalization of relations with Japan and took part in the June 3, 1965 movement against humiliating diplomacy with Japan, the June 3 Uprising, where he served as "chairman of the Seoul National University struggle committee against humiliating diplomacy with Japan."1 In March 1964, on March 5, the government held a joint meeting of the government and the ruling party and announced a schedule of negotiations with Japan: agricultural talks from March 10, main talks from March 12, and foreign minister talks in April.2 On March 6, the Civic Party, Democratic Party, Liberal Party, People's Party and other extra-parliamentary opposition parties, together with about 200 prominent figures from society,2 religious and cultural groups, formed the nationwide struggle committee against humiliating diplomacy with Japan.2 On March 9, at the Jongno Wedding Hall in Seoul, politicians and extra-parliamentary figures gathered, adopted a national salvation declaration, and vowed to rise up with full commitment in the opposition struggle. Yun Bo-seon, who held responsibility as chairman of the anti-humiliating diplomacy struggle committee, read the national salvation declaration.2Jang Taek-sang compared the Korea–Japan talks to the Japanese annexation of Korea. Jang criticized it, saying that the annexation could never go according to their wishes.3
On May 30, students of the Seoul National University College of Liberal Arts held a freedom rally on campus, denounced the Korea–Japan talks and the Park Chung-hee regime, and then began a hunger strike. This became the direct trigger of the June 3 Incident.4 Kim Deok-ryong, as student council president, read a declaration stating that "today's hunger strike may become tomorrow's bloody struggle" and began the hunger sit-in.4
Yun Bo-seon praised the declaration of Kim Deok-ryong, president of the Seoul National University College of Liberal Arts student council, as a solemn declaration.2 As time went on, the number of students participating in the hunger sit-in steadily increased. Professors and citizens came one after another to the non-violent student sit-in site to encourage them and left food.2 Yun Bo-seon and Ha Seok-heon visited the sit-in site together. Yun said that this was not so much a political purpose as a greater desire to comfort the pitiful students, like children.4
Afterward, martial law was declared, and as student council officers were arrested, Kim Deok-ryong was also imprisoned on suspicion of leading the June 3 Uprising. After his imprisonment, he was expelled from Seoul National University, and as a result he withdrew after completing three years of the sociology department at Seoul National University.56
정치 활동
정계 입문 초기
While participating in the anti-normalization protests against Korea–Japan relations, he also interacted with Lee Myung-bak and others.7 He became acquainted with Lee Myung-bak, then student council president of the Korea University College of Commerce, organized the "June 3 Comrades" group, and was active in it.1 Later, he received an honorary doctorate in humanities from Portland State University in the United States.1
In 1970 he was recruited as a secretary to New Democratic Party National Assemblyman Kim Young-sam and entered politics. Having entered politics as Kim Young-sam's secretary, he was famously known by the nickname "YS's alter ego," and he remained a close associate of Kim Young-sam for a long time. Later, when Kim Young-sam became leader of the New Democratic Party, he served as chief secretary to Kim Young-sam, the party leader.6
야당 정치인 생활
유신 시절
He served as Kim Young-sam's secretary and close associate. After the Yushin system was established by Park Chung-hee in 1972, he was imprisoned three times under the Yushin regime. In September 1979, in connection with the sit-in at the New Democratic Party headquarters by female workers of YH Trading, he was forcibly dragged out of the party office together with the YH Trading workers who were sitting in. Then, when the Park Chung-hee government invoked Emergency Decree No. 9, he was arrested for violating the emergency decree. He afterward experienced the end of the Yushin regime while in prison.89 Meanwhile, he showed a sense of ease, remarking that prison life had been comfortable.
After the Yushin system ended with the October 26 Incident in 1979, on November 24, 1980, he became one of 567 people whose political activities were confirmed to be banned, and he was barred from political activity. Although there were three later lifts of the ban, Chun Doo-hwan kept 14 people, including the "Three Kims," Lee Hu-rak, former presidential chief secretary, Oh Chi-seong, former Minister of Home Affairs, Yi Yong-hui, former vice speaker of the National Assembly, Kim Sang-hyeon and Kim Myeong-yun, former New Democratic Party members, and Kim Deok-ryong, who was a member of the Democratization Promotion Council operating committee (Kim Young-sam's chief secretary), from engaging in political activity.10
5공 시절
Even after Kim Young-sam was forced out of politics by Chun Doo-hwan, many people left Kim Young-sam's side, but he did not leave Kim Young-sam and continued to assist him. In 1983, when Kim Young-sam went on a hunger strike, he cared for Kim Young-sam, who was bedridden, by his side during the hunger strike.8
In 1984, while serving as planning and coordination director of the Democratization Promotion Council, he attended to Kim Young-sam in the Council and in the New Democratic Party, but he could not engage in political activity.11 He also took part in and was active in groups such as the Democratic Mountain Club.
Until he was pardoned and restored in 1987, he could not engage in institutional politics, but he frequently visited Stephens, then political team leader, at Young-sam's side.11 In 1987 he, together with Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung, was finally released from political activity restrictions, and in 1988 he was elected in the 13th National Assembly election in Seoul's Seocho B district and entered the National Assembly.1 He then became known as a five-term National Assembly member from Seocho-gu, Seoul. He later served as special assistant to the president of the Democratic Party12 and in January 1990 took part in the founding of the Democratic Liberal Party, through which the Democratic Justice Party, the Unification Democratic Party, and the New Democratic Republican Party merged as three parties.1Roh Moo-hyun and some other close associates of Kim Young-sam objected, but he followed Kim Young-sam's choice and joined the Democratic Liberal Party with him.
Choi Hyung-woo and Kim Dong-yeong, who were called Kim Young-sam's left and right arms, were two of his close associates. In 1990, three years after he entered the National Assembly, Kim Dong-yeong died, and Kim Deok-ryong, together with Choi Hyung-woo, became a close associate of Kim Young-sam.8 However, in 1997, when former Assemblyman Choi Hyung-woo collapsed from a stroke and was forced to retire from politics, he was mentioned as Kim Young-sam's direct successor.8 However, under pressure from the Lee Hoi-chang faction and the conservative forces within the party, he was ultimately not designated as the presidential successor.
여,야 정치 활동
Meanwhile, he was one of the people targeted for surveillance by the Defense Security Command and was monitored by the Roh Tae-woo administration. This was revealed on October 4, 1990, at around 6:40 p.m., through the disclosure of Private Yun Seok-yang, a deserter who had been a student at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and was from the Minhak Tuhyeon group.13 After deserting, Yun Seok-yang made a "declaration of conscience" at the Korea Christian Church Council's Human Rights Committee office on the 7th floor of the Christian Center in Yeonji-dong, Seoul. He disclosed the individual index cards of persons under surveillance, which he had taken from the Defense Security Command when he deserted, and a computer diskette containing the data entered on them.13
In 1992, he was active in Kim Young-sam's election campaign. In December 1992, after Kim Young-sam was elected in the 14th presidential election, he held key posts under the Civilian Government, including First Political Affairs Minister, Political Affairs Minister in 1993, and secretary-general of the Democratic Liberal Party in 1995. In 1996 he again entered the cabinet as Political Affairs Minister. In 1993 he was elected chairman of the World Korean Businessmen's Association, and in 1994 he served as Seoul city branch chairman of the Democratic Liberal Party. In 1995 he was appointed secretary-general of the Democratic Liberal Party but resigned after the defeat in the local elections. In 1997 he ran in the New Korea Party's 15th presidential candidate primary but failed to gain united support from the Democratic faction and finished fourth.7
In 1998, Lee Hoi-chang, former party leader, took control of the Grand National Party's leadership, and the Democratic Justice Party faction gained the advantage. However, he kept the Democratic faction within the Grand National Party, and in 1998 he became deputy chairman of the Grand National Party, serving two years in that post.7
기타 활동
In 1995 he was appointed chairman of the National Assembly Science and Technology Research Society and held the post until 2002. From 1998 to March 2006 he was chairman of the Maheon Yun Bong-gil Memorial Project Association. In 1997 he took part in the founding of the 21st Century National Management Research Society and was elected its chairman. In 1999 he became chairman of the New Millennium Committee, an internal organization of the Grand National Party, and in the same year the National Assembly Popular Culture and Media Special Research Group was organized and he was appointed its chairman. From 2000 to 2002 he was appointed chairman of the Korea Floriculture Association.
In 2001 he taught as an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Hanyang University, and that year he was elected honorary chairman of the Korea Internet PC Culture Association. In 2002 he was elected co-chairman of the Grand National Party presidential election campaign headquarters, and in 2002 he was appointed co-chairman of the Democratization Promotion Council. In 2002 he was appointed president of the World Korean Community Foundation for Peace and Prosperity.
노무현 정부 시절
In 2004 he was elected floor leader of the Grand National Party, but in 2005 he resigned, taking responsibility for the passage of the special act on administrative capital. In the 2006 local elections, his wife was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 20 million won in connection with receiving money under the pretext of arranging district chief nominations, in violation of the Public Official Election Act.8914 He was then elected joint standing chairman and standing adviser of the National Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation.6 In 2005 he served as chairman of the Korea–China–Japan parliamentary diplomatic council and as standing chairman of the National Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, and from March 2006 he was elected chairman of the Korea Business and Technology Consultants Association. However, during the 2006 local elections he was embroiled in the scandal over his wife's nomination irregularities and even considered retiring from politics, but he eventually returned.5
In 2007, in the Grand National Party presidential candidate primary, he declared support for Lee Myung-bak, with whom he had a 45-year personal relationship, and together with Park Hee-tae, the Grand National Party's representative, he served as joint campaign committee chairman for Lee Myung-bak's presidential candidacy.712 In the 18th presidential election, he openly supported Lee Myung-bak and was active, but in November 2007 he asked Lee Hoi-chang to return, saying that the Grand National Party was a party created for Lee Hoi-chang.15 Although he was seen as a likely nominee for Seoul's Seocho district, Ko Seung-deok, a lawyer, emerged as a rival,16 and he was eliminated from the Grand National Party nomination for Seoul's Seocho B district ahead of the 2008 18th National Assembly election.7 After being dropped, Kim Deok-ryong was shocked,7 but because of his background in the democratization movement, having been imprisoned four times, and his status as a senior (five-term) politician from the Honam region, he was repeatedly recommended for posts such as prime minister, presidential office chief, senior vice chairman of the Consultative Conference, and presidential political special adviser even after the nomination failure.5
이명박 정부 이후
In March 2008 he became chairman of the Grand National Party central election campaign committee, and on July 7 of the same year he was appointed special presidential adviser for national unity in the Presidential Office. He was widely mentioned as a likely senior vice chairman of the Consultative Conference on Peaceful Unification, but after being appointed special adviser for national unity to President Lee Myung-bak, Lee Ki-taek, chairman of the Overseas Korean Education Promotion Association, became senior vice chairman instead.17 Although he was dropped from the National Assembly nomination in April of that year, he did not hold it against the party and returned to politics. Lee Myung-bak appointed him special presidential adviser for national unity.
In January 2009 he was mentioned as a prospective candidate for chairman of the Korea Baseball Organization.18 On March 19, 2009, he was elected chairman of the standing committee of the National Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation by special election of eight standing chairmen of the council.6
Other social activities included serving as chairman of the World Korean Businessmen's Association, chairman of the June 3 Comrades, and co-chairman of the Democratization Promotion Council.1
On December 8, 2009, he received an honorary doctorate in political science from Pukyong National University Daeyeon Campus in recognition of his contribution to the development of Korean politics.1920
In the 18th presidential election, he supported candidate Moon Jae-in.21 Later, in the 19th presidential election, after repeated requests from Moon Jae-in's campaign, he joined the campaign's "One Korea Committee" as its standing committee chairman.22
While he was imprisoned, his son asked his wife, "Where is Daddy?" and she reportedly replied that Daddy had gone abroad on a business trip. After his release, Kim Deok-ryong reportedly bought toys at a department store in the city and went home, pretending that he had been on a foreign business trip, after hearing the story from his wife.
After the start of the 17th National Assembly, as floor leader of the Grand National Party he rushed around to block the Uri Party's proposal to abolish the National Security Act, and the image of him doing so remains vivid for young people. However, when he was a first-term National Assemblyman in 1989, he strongly advocated the "abolition of the National Security Act," and even in 2001, although he was then a deputy chairman of the Grand National Party, whose official party position was to maintain the National Security Act, he reportedly voted in favor of the full revision of the National Security Act proposed by the then ruling party, the Millennium Democratic Party.
Kim Deok-ryong (金德龍, born April 6, 1941) is a South Korean student activist and politician. A five-term member of the National Assembly, he served in the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th National Assemblies. He is from Iksan.
주요 이력
As the head of the Seoul National University student council, he led student activism. In 1965 he opposed the Korea–Japan Treaty and took part in the June 3 Uprising, for which he was imprisoned and later released. During the rule of Park Chung-hee, he was jailed four times. In 1970 he entered politics as an aide to New Democratic Party leader Kim Young-sam, and he subsequently worked as an opposition politician. In 1988 he was elected to the 13th National Assembly and was re-elected to the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th Assemblies, serving five terms in total. In 1990, when Kim Young-sam joined the three-party merger, he followed Kim into the Democratic Liberal Party, and he was active in the New Korea Party and the Grand National Party. During the opposition activities of the New Democratic Party and the Unification Democratic Party, he was, together with Kim Dong-yeong, Seo Seok-jae, and Choi Hyung-woo, a close associate of former party leader Kim Young-sam.
After the launch of the Civilian Government in 1993, he served Kim Young-sam closely. In 1993 and 1996 he served as First Political Affairs Minister, and under the Pragmatic Government of Lee Myung-bak he served as a special presidential aide (minister-level). He is well known by the English initials "DR" as a nickname.1
인물과 경력
생애 초반
출생과 수학
Kim Deok-ryong was born in Iksan County, Jeonbuk, and in 1957 graduated from Namseong Middle School in Iksan city (Iri). That same year he entered Gyeongbok High School. He graduated from Gyeongbok High School in February 1960 and that year entered the Seoul National University College of Liberal Arts, Department of Sociology. He was later elected head of the student council of the Seoul National University College of Liberal Arts and then elected chairman of the university-wide student council.1
However, in 1964 he opposed the humiliating diplomacy with Japan and took part in the June 3 Incident, which ultimately led to his withdrawal from Seoul National University.
6.3 사태 전후
In June 1964, he opposed the Park Chung-hee government's normalization of relations with Japan and took part in the June 3, 1965 movement against humiliating diplomacy with Japan, the June 3 Uprising, where he served as "chairman of the Seoul National University struggle committee against humiliating diplomacy with Japan."1 In March 1964, on March 5, the government held a joint meeting of the government and the ruling party and announced a schedule of negotiations with Japan: agricultural talks from March 10, main talks from March 12, and foreign minister talks in April.2 On March 6, the Civic Party, Democratic Party, Liberal Party, People's Party and other extra-parliamentary opposition parties, together with about 200 prominent figures from society,2 religious and cultural groups, formed the nationwide struggle committee against humiliating diplomacy with Japan.2 On March 9, at the Jongno Wedding Hall in Seoul, politicians and extra-parliamentary figures gathered, adopted a national salvation declaration, and vowed to rise up with full commitment in the opposition struggle. Yun Bo-seon, who held responsibility as chairman of the anti-humiliating diplomacy struggle committee, read the national salvation declaration.2Jang Taek-sang compared the Korea–Japan talks to the Japanese annexation of Korea. Jang criticized it, saying that the annexation could never go according to their wishes.3
On May 30, students of the Seoul National University College of Liberal Arts held a freedom rally on campus, denounced the Korea–Japan talks and the Park Chung-hee regime, and then began a hunger strike. This became the direct trigger of the June 3 Incident.4 Kim Deok-ryong, as student council president, read a declaration stating that "today's hunger strike may become tomorrow's bloody struggle" and began the hunger sit-in.4
Yun Bo-seon praised the declaration of Kim Deok-ryong, president of the Seoul National University College of Liberal Arts student council, as a solemn declaration.2 As time went on, the number of students participating in the hunger sit-in steadily increased. Professors and citizens came one after another to the non-violent student sit-in site to encourage them and left food.2 Yun Bo-seon and Ha Seok-heon visited the sit-in site together. Yun said that this was not so much a political purpose as a greater desire to comfort the pitiful students, like children.4
Afterward, martial law was declared, and as student council officers were arrested, Kim Deok-ryong was also imprisoned on suspicion of leading the June 3 Uprising. After his imprisonment, he was expelled from Seoul National University, and as a result he withdrew after completing three years of the sociology department at Seoul National University.56
정치 활동
정계 입문 초기
While participating in the anti-normalization protests against Korea–Japan relations, he also interacted with Lee Myung-bak and others.7 He became acquainted with Lee Myung-bak, then student council president of the Korea University College of Commerce, organized the "June 3 Comrades" group, and was active in it.1 Later, he received an honorary doctorate in humanities from Portland State University in the United States.1
In 1970 he was recruited as a secretary to New Democratic Party National Assemblyman Kim Young-sam and entered politics. Having entered politics as Kim Young-sam's secretary, he was famously known by the nickname "YS's alter ego," and he remained a close associate of Kim Young-sam for a long time. Later, when Kim Young-sam became leader of the New Democratic Party, he served as chief secretary to Kim Young-sam, the party leader.6
야당 정치인 생활
유신 시절
He served as Kim Young-sam's secretary and close associate. After the Yushin system was established by Park Chung-hee in 1972, he was imprisoned three times under the Yushin regime. In September 1979, in connection with the sit-in at the New Democratic Party headquarters by female workers of YH Trading, he was forcibly dragged out of the party office together with the YH Trading workers who were sitting in. Then, when the Park Chung-hee government invoked Emergency Decree No. 9, he was arrested for violating the emergency decree. He afterward experienced the end of the Yushin regime while in prison.89 Meanwhile, he showed a sense of ease, remarking that prison life had been comfortable.
After the Yushin system ended with the October 26 Incident in 1979, on November 24, 1980, he became one of 567 people whose political activities were confirmed to be banned, and he was barred from political activity. Although there were three later lifts of the ban, Chun Doo-hwan kept 14 people, including the "Three Kims," Lee Hu-rak, former presidential chief secretary, Oh Chi-seong, former Minister of Home Affairs, Yi Yong-hui, former vice speaker of the National Assembly, Kim Sang-hyeon and Kim Myeong-yun, former New Democratic Party members, and Kim Deok-ryong, who was a member of the Democratization Promotion Council operating committee (Kim Young-sam's chief secretary), from engaging in political activity.10
5공 시절
Even after Kim Young-sam was forced out of politics by Chun Doo-hwan, many people left Kim Young-sam's side, but he did not leave Kim Young-sam and continued to assist him. In 1983, when Kim Young-sam went on a hunger strike, he cared for Kim Young-sam, who was bedridden, by his side during the hunger strike.8
In 1984, while serving as planning and coordination director of the Democratization Promotion Council, he attended to Kim Young-sam in the Council and in the New Democratic Party, but he could not engage in political activity.11 He also took part in and was active in groups such as the Democratic Mountain Club.
Until he was pardoned and restored in 1987, he could not engage in institutional politics, but he frequently visited Stephens, then political team leader, at Young-sam's side.11 In 1987 he, together with Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung, was finally released from political activity restrictions, and in 1988 he was elected in the 13th National Assembly election in Seoul's Seocho B district and entered the National Assembly.1 He then became known as a five-term National Assembly member from Seocho-gu, Seoul. He later served as special assistant to the president of the Democratic Party12 and in January 1990 took part in the founding of the Democratic Liberal Party, through which the Democratic Justice Party, the Unification Democratic Party, and the New Democratic Republican Party merged as three parties.1Roh Moo-hyun and some other close associates of Kim Young-sam objected, but he followed Kim Young-sam's choice and joined the Democratic Liberal Party with him.
Choi Hyung-woo and Kim Dong-yeong, who were called Kim Young-sam's left and right arms, were two of his close associates. In 1990, three years after he entered the National Assembly, Kim Dong-yeong died, and Kim Deok-ryong, together with Choi Hyung-woo, became a close associate of Kim Young-sam.8 However, in 1997, when former Assemblyman Choi Hyung-woo collapsed from a stroke and was forced to retire from politics, he was mentioned as Kim Young-sam's direct successor.8 However, under pressure from the Lee Hoi-chang faction and the conservative forces within the party, he was ultimately not designated as the presidential successor.
여,야 정치 활동
Meanwhile, he was one of the people targeted for surveillance by the Defense Security Command and was monitored by the Roh Tae-woo administration. This was revealed on October 4, 1990, at around 6:40 p.m., through the disclosure of Private Yun Seok-yang, a deserter who had been a student at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and was from the Minhak Tuhyeon group.13 After deserting, Yun Seok-yang made a "declaration of conscience" at the Korea Christian Church Council's Human Rights Committee office on the 7th floor of the Christian Center in Yeonji-dong, Seoul. He disclosed the individual index cards of persons under surveillance, which he had taken from the Defense Security Command when he deserted, and a computer diskette containing the data entered on them.13
In 1992, he was active in Kim Young-sam's election campaign. In December 1992, after Kim Young-sam was elected in the 14th presidential election, he held key posts under the Civilian Government, including First Political Affairs Minister, Political Affairs Minister in 1993, and secretary-general of the Democratic Liberal Party in 1995. In 1996 he again entered the cabinet as Political Affairs Minister. In 1993 he was elected chairman of the World Korean Businessmen's Association, and in 1994 he served as Seoul city branch chairman of the Democratic Liberal Party. In 1995 he was appointed secretary-general of the Democratic Liberal Party but resigned after the defeat in the local elections. In 1997 he ran in the New Korea Party's 15th presidential candidate primary but failed to gain united support from the Democratic faction and finished fourth.7
In 1998, Lee Hoi-chang, former party leader, took control of the Grand National Party's leadership, and the Democratic Justice Party faction gained the advantage. However, he kept the Democratic faction within the Grand National Party, and in 1998 he became deputy chairman of the Grand National Party, serving two years in that post.7
기타 활동
In 1995 he was appointed chairman of the National Assembly Science and Technology Research Society and held the post until 2002. From 1998 to March 2006 he was chairman of the Maheon Yun Bong-gil Memorial Project Association. In 1997 he took part in the founding of the 21st Century National Management Research Society and was elected its chairman. In 1999 he became chairman of the New Millennium Committee, an internal organization of the Grand National Party, and in the same year the National Assembly Popular Culture and Media Special Research Group was organized and he was appointed its chairman. From 2000 to 2002 he was appointed chairman of the Korea Floriculture Association.
In 2001 he taught as an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Hanyang University, and that year he was elected honorary chairman of the Korea Internet PC Culture Association. In 2002 he was elected co-chairman of the Grand National Party presidential election campaign headquarters, and in 2002 he was appointed co-chairman of the Democratization Promotion Council. In 2002 he was appointed president of the World Korean Community Foundation for Peace and Prosperity.
노무현 정부 시절
In 2004 he was elected floor leader of the Grand National Party, but in 2005 he resigned, taking responsibility for the passage of the special act on administrative capital. In the 2006 local elections, his wife was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 20 million won in connection with receiving money under the pretext of arranging district chief nominations, in violation of the Public Official Election Act.8914 He was then elected joint standing chairman and standing adviser of the National Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation.6 In 2005 he served as chairman of the Korea–China–Japan parliamentary diplomatic council and as standing chairman of the National Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, and from March 2006 he was elected chairman of the Korea Business and Technology Consultants Association. However, during the 2006 local elections he was embroiled in the scandal over his wife's nomination irregularities and even considered retiring from politics, but he eventually returned.5
In 2007, in the Grand National Party presidential candidate primary, he declared support for Lee Myung-bak, with whom he had a 45-year personal relationship, and together with Park Hee-tae, the Grand National Party's representative, he served as joint campaign committee chairman for Lee Myung-bak's presidential candidacy.712 In the 18th presidential election, he openly supported Lee Myung-bak and was active, but in November 2007 he asked Lee Hoi-chang to return, saying that the Grand National Party was a party created for Lee Hoi-chang.15 Although he was seen as a likely nominee for Seoul's Seocho district, Ko Seung-deok, a lawyer, emerged as a rival,16 and he was eliminated from the Grand National Party nomination for Seoul's Seocho B district ahead of the 2008 18th National Assembly election.7 After being dropped, Kim Deok-ryong was shocked,7 but because of his background in the democratization movement, having been imprisoned four times, and his status as a senior (five-term) politician from the Honam region, he was repeatedly recommended for posts such as prime minister, presidential office chief, senior vice chairman of the Consultative Conference, and presidential political special adviser even after the nomination failure.5
이명박 정부 이후
In March 2008 he became chairman of the Grand National Party central election campaign committee, and on July 7 of the same year he was appointed special presidential adviser for national unity in the Presidential Office. He was widely mentioned as a likely senior vice chairman of the Consultative Conference on Peaceful Unification, but after being appointed special adviser for national unity to President Lee Myung-bak, Lee Ki-taek, chairman of the Overseas Korean Education Promotion Association, became senior vice chairman instead.17 Although he was dropped from the National Assembly nomination in April of that year, he did not hold it against the party and returned to politics. Lee Myung-bak appointed him special presidential adviser for national unity.
In January 2009 he was mentioned as a prospective candidate for chairman of the Korea Baseball Organization.18 On March 19, 2009, he was elected chairman of the standing committee of the National Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation by special election of eight standing chairmen of the council.6
Other social activities included serving as chairman of the World Korean Businessmen's Association, chairman of the June 3 Comrades, and co-chairman of the Democratization Promotion Council.1
On December 8, 2009, he received an honorary doctorate in political science from Pukyong National University Daeyeon Campus in recognition of his contribution to the development of Korean politics.1920
In the 18th presidential election, he supported candidate Moon Jae-in.21 Later, in the 19th presidential election, after repeated requests from Moon Jae-in's campaign, he joined the campaign's "One Korea Committee" as its standing committee chairman.22
While he was imprisoned, his son asked his wife, "Where is Daddy?" and she reportedly replied that Daddy had gone abroad on a business trip. After his release, Kim Deok-ryong reportedly bought toys at a department store in the city and went home, pretending that he had been on a foreign business trip, after hearing the story from his wife.
After the start of the 17th National Assembly, as floor leader of the Grand National Party he rushed around to block the Uri Party's proposal to abolish the National Security Act, and the image of him doing so remains vivid for young people. However, when he was a first-term National Assemblyman in 1989, he strongly advocated the "abolition of the National Security Act," and even in 2001, although he was then a deputy chairman of the Grand National Party, whose official party position was to maintain the National Security Act, he reportedly voted in favor of the full revision of the National Security Act proposed by the then ruling party, the Millennium Democratic Party.