Lee Ji-moon

Lee Ji-moon (李智文, born 1968) is a Korean soldier, whistleblower, civic activist and political scientist.

Career
Born in Yangsan, Gyeongnam, 1968. Namgang High School graduated from the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Korea University in 1991, while serving as Lt. Lieutenant in the 9th Division White Horse Troops during the ROTC 29th. The official requested the soldiers to shoot the candidate and accused the election of fraudulent elections that the public vote had been committed through a press conference (March 22, 1992). After being arrested and arrested for second-class soldiers, after three years of court quarrels, the dismissal was canceled and Lee was able to move to lieutenant. However, after being hired by the Samsung Group, he decided to take a leave of absence during his military service and to work after the war. Was rejected, and after the recommendation of reinstatement by the Democratization Committee, he was denied reinstatement and refused to return to the Samsung Group.

In the wake of Lee's revelation, absentee ballots in the military were improved to out-of-office voting, which began in the same year as presidential elections, helping to block the election of illegal elections.

Since then, Lee has been in political affairs for a while, and has been elected as the youngest member of the Seoul Metropolitan Government as a Democratic Party. Since the end of the city council, he has worked as an anti-corruption civil society activist at gatherings with the public interest reporter, the Whistle Foundation, the Heungsadan Transparent Social Movement Headquarters, and the Press Center for Human Rights. He is the only lottery democracy in Korea to elect members of parliament and local councils through lottery instead of elections. As of 2018, he is the general manager of the Korea Integrity Movement Headquarters, a permanent representative of the Internal Reporting Practice Movement, a research professor at Yonsei University, and a member of the government's Integrity Society and Public Relations Council. For his anti-corruption merit, he won the National Package, Presidential Commendation, and the Citizen's Award. Related to the Democratic Movement he was recognized by the Honorary Recovery and Compensation Review Committee as a democratic movement related person. Through a series of anti-corruption campaigns after the whistle-blowing, Yonhap News and the trend newspapers introduced it as a symbol anti-corruption.