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Moon Jae-in

Politician

Moon Jae-in is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	MOON Jae In · Moon Jae-in · Mun Dzsein · Mun Dže In · Mun Džėinas · 27 more...				[sources]
Alias	Bûn Chāi-în · Cumhurbaşkanı Moon · Jae-In Moon · Moon Jae-in · Mun Chae-in · 36 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	ムン・ジェイン				[sources]
Birth date	1953-01-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Geoje				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	South Korea				[sources]
Country	South Korea				[sources]
Citizenship	South Korea				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Jae-in				[sources]
Last name	Moon				[sources]
Website	www.moonjaein.com · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q21001				[sources]
Position	Chief of Staff to the President of South Korea · Member of the National Assembly of South Korea · National Assembly (member, 2012-2016) · President of South Korea				[sources]
Education	Gyeongnam Middle School · Kyung Hee University · Kyungnam High School · Namhang Elmentary School				[sources]
Religion	Catholic Church				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-05	Last processed	2025-12-05	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

12th President of the Republic of Korea

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-04-16

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Moon Joon Yong Close Associate	child	-	-
Moon Yong-hyung Politician	father	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
President of South Korea	2017-05-10	2022-05-09

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Kim Jung-sook Politician	spouse	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories198,546

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician57,742

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,782

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata386,574

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions516,228

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-167a93eb-dcd3-4ea1-8e13-4d2d57fe51b5

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