Korean-American Dave Min of the Democratic Party wins first Congressional election

Dave Min, a Korean-American politician from the Democratic Party who served as a state senator in California, the U.S., will enter the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time.

Local broadcasters reported on the 13th local time that Democratic candidate Dave Min has been elected or is certain to be elected, with 89 percent of the votes counted in California's 47th Congressional District.Candidate

won 50.9% of the vote, beating his rival, Republican Scott Boe, who won 49.1%.

The constituency is a contested area where the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are fiercely competing, and the party's all-out efforts, such as funding and manpower, were outlined after the election on the 5th.

This time, Min challenged Porter for the House of Representatives with his support when he ran for the Senate.

Born in 1976, Min graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School, and went on to pursue a career as a Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer and professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.

He also once served as an economic and financial policy adviser to Democratic U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and directed economic policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C.With the addition of

candidates, the number of Koreans elected in the federal House and Senate elections so far has increased to four, including Representative Andy Kim, who has won his first Senate seat, and Young Kim and Marilyn Strickland, who have won three terms.