{"id":207298,"date":"2026-04-30T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/dp-picks-ex-presidential-ai-chief-spokesperson-as-candidates-in-june-by-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:35:18","slug":"dp-picks-ex-presidential-ai-chief-spokesperson-as-candidates-in-june-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.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>Here are the key points from the article, listed in an unordered format:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The ruling Democratic Party (DP) has nominated two former senior presidential officials for the upcoming parliamentary by-elections occurring along with local elections.<br \/>\n&#8211; Ha Jung-woo, former presidential secretary for AI policy and future planning, is nominated to run for a parliamentary seat in the Buk-A constituency in Busan. His nomination is seen as an attempt to succeed the constituency of former lawmaker Chun Jae-soo.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Buk-A constituency is anticipated to have a three-way race between Ha Jung-woo, Han Dong-hoon (former head of the main opposition), and a potential PPP candidate, possibly former Veterans Minister Park Min-shik.<br \/>\n&#8211; President Lee Jae Myung nicknamed Ha Jung-woo \u201cHa-GPT,&#8221; a playful reference to his expertise in AI, suggesting expectations for advancing AI-related legislation in the National Assembly if elected.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Democratic Party also nominated Jeon Eun-soo, former presidential spokesperson, to contest the Asan constituency in South Chungcheong Province.<br \/>\n&#8211; A total of fourteen parliamentary seats are available in the by-elections which will also coincide with the local elections.<br \/>\n&#8211; These by-elections could act as the first significant indicator of public support for the Lee administration since its inception in June of the previous year.<br \/><\/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":207299,"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":[],"class_list":["post-207298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207300,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207298\/revisions\/207300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}