 Selection of candidates to run in local elections in 2006, Seongnam-si, by the Judges, Roh Moo-hyun regime for the, surfaced at the defeated.In the 2007 presidential election, he served as senior vice presidential secretary for presidential candidate Chung Dong-young, and in the 2008 general elections, he was strategically nominated to Bundang-gu, Seongnam, but lost the election.Hwang Joon-ki of the Grand National Party, who ran in the 2010 local elections and won the Seongnam mayoral election, winning 58.9 percent and 57.9 percent of the votes in the previous elections, respectively, and advancing 44.6 percent in Bundang, where the conservative camp had consistently won the previous elections, winning 51.2 percent overall, beating Hwang Joon-ki of the main opposition Grand National Party, who won 43.1 percent.