South KoreaAbout
Kim Eun-hye was born in 1971 in Seoul. She studied mass communication at Ewha Womans University and holds a master's from Yonsei University's Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She joined MBC as a reporter in 1993 and later anchored its main evening news. She served as spokesperson at the presidential office under Lee Myung-bak in 2008, then headed communications at KT as an executive and anchored news at MBN.
She is a People Power Party member of the National Assembly for Seongnam Bundang-gu B in Gyeonggi Province. She was first elected in 2020, left the Assembly in 2022 to run for Governor of Gyeonggi Province, which she narrowly lost, and served as senior presidential secretary for public relations under Yoon Suk-yeol from 2022 to 2023. She returned to the Assembly in 2024 and sits on the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee. She is the party's senior deputy floor leader for policy.
On 28 July 2025 she introduced a bill on payment innovation using value-fixed digital assets, one of the first dedicated won stablecoin bills in the National Assembly. It would require stablecoin issuers to hold at least ₩5 billion in equity capital, have their reserve assets audited quarterly and submit and publish the results with the FSC, and set rules on whitepapers and issuer liability. News reports noted that the bill also provided a legal basis for domestic token offerings, which are currently not permitted in Korea.
Policy engagement
Lead sponsor of a won stablecoin bill on payment innovation using value-fixed digital assets (28 Jul 2025), requiring ₩5 billion capital for issuers and quarterly external audits of reserves reported to the FSC.
