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Jeon Mun-hak, the Democratic Party of Korea’s preliminary candidate for mayor of Seo-gu, Daejeon, opened a joint campaign office with Son Do-seon, a preliminary candidate for the Daejeon City Council, in Wolpyeong-dong, Seo-gu on May 5.
The opening drew a large crowd, including Democratic Party lawmakers Park Beom-gye (Daejeon Seo-gu Eul), Jang Jong-tae (Daejeon Seo-gu Gap), and Hwang Myeong-seon (Supreme Council member); Daejeon City Party Chair Park Jeong-hyun; former Daejeon Mayor Kwon Seon-taek; Daejeon mayoral pre-candidate Heo Tae-jung; and mayoral pre-candidates Kim Je-seon (Jung-gu), Jeong Yong-rae (Yuseong-gu), Hwang In-ho (Dong-gu), and Kim Chan-sul (Daedeok-gu). Candidates for Daejeon superintendent of education — Seong Gwang-jin, Maeng Su-seok, and Jeong Sang-shin — as well as numerous city and district council pre-candidates and supporters, also attended.
Representing the attendees, lawmakers Park Beom-gye and Jang Jong-tae presented blue sneakers to the two preliminary candidates, Jeon and Son, and urged them to listen more closely to residents on the ground.
In his remarks, Jeon said the experience he gained working with Lee Jae-myung’s presidential campaign and with national local autonomy organizations has become a valuable asset that strengthened his practical ability to connect local and central government and enhanced his capacity to advance policy. He added that he will use that experience to attract central resources and opportunities to Seo-gu and deliver changes residents will actually feel.
Jeon emphasized, “Now is the time to move beyond maintaining the status quo and to restart Seo-gu’s stalled engine,” and pledged, “I will make Seo-gu the clearest example of the basic society envisioned by President Lee Jae-myung.”
He framed his core vision as “Seo-gu, the flagship of the basic society.” His platform includes turning Seo-gu into a place where residents decide budgets and policies — a participatory “citizen-sovereignty Seo-gu”; implementing a basic social model that guarantees essential living rights in housing, education, and finance; and building a “sharing-economy hub” where senior employment and small businesses prosper together.
Son Do-seon said, “As a two-term Seo-gu council member, I’ve worked alongside residents and helped bring about many changes, but I have repeatedly felt the limits imposed by city-level policies and budgets. I’m running for city council to overcome those limits.”
He added that he will deliver tangible improvements in residents’ lives through neighborhood-focused policies that revive local commerce. “We will start in Wolpyeong and Mannyeon and expand across Seo-gu and throughout Daejeon,” he said.
Son plans to establish an integrated community-care system for the Wolpyeong and Mannyeon areas, revitalize neighborhood businesses by dismantling unreasonable regulations, and leverage local environmental assets such as the Wolpyeong wetlands.
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