Kim, a three-term congressman from central New Jersey, on Tuesday defeated Republican businessman Curtis Bashaw for the seat that opened when former Senator Bob Menendez resigned this year after his federal conviction on bribery charges.“I want to contribute to strengthening US-Korea relations,” Kim told South Korean journalists in the US after winning the state’s Senate race.“There is a lot more we can do together in semiconductor manufacturing, artificial intelligence and other areas where we think Korea is at the forefront.”South Korea’s economy is expected to lose momentum further following Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election as he vowed to pursue a highly protectionist trade policy and scrap or reduce subsidies for electric vehicles and semiconductors during his campaign.
TOUGH TIMES DURING CAMPAIGNKim faced some tough times due to his ethnicity during the latest campaign.“Last year, when I first started running for Senate, I had somebody literally tell me to my face that I’m the ‘wrong kind of minority to win statewide,’” Kim told US NBC News.“That was really hurtful.”“I have every bit as much right to represent the state as anybody else.
A podcaster took a jab at Kim’s Korean heritage, even causing his opponent Bashaw to quickly denounce the comments and defend him as a “good man and a patriotic American who has dedicated much of his life to public service.”Kim pledged to build a new era of politics.“There’s no doubt a new era of politics is beginning.The old ways are over.
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