Joachim Son-Forget

Joachim Son-Forget
Member of the National Assembly
for the 6th constituency for French residents overseas
In office
21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022
Preceded byClaudine Schmid
Succeeded byMarc Ferracci
Personal details
Born
Kim Jae Duk

(1983-04-15) 15 April 1983 (age 41)
Seoul, South Korea
NationalityFrench
Kosovar
Political partyIndependent (since 2022)
Other political
affiliations		Socialist Party (until 2014)
La République En Marche! (2017–2018)
Valeur Absolue (2019–2021)
Reconquête (2022)
Children2
ProfessionRadiologist

Joachim Jean-Marie Forget[1] (né Kim Jae Duk; Korean: 김재덕;[2] born 15 April 1983), known as Joachim Son-Forget (French: [ʒɔakim sɔn fɔʁʒɛ]) is a South Korean-born French politician who lives in Switzerland. He has also held Kosovar citizenship since 2018.[3]

Adopted by a French family as a child, Son-Forget holds a doctorate in neuroscience and has experience working as a radiologist in Switzerland. He was previously active within the Socialist Party (PS), then liberal party La République En Marche! (LREM) until he resigned from the party in late 2018. He then founded his own political party Valeur Absolue, and between 2021 and 2022 was active alongside far-right party Reconquête.[4] Son-Forget has variously labeled himself a liberal,[5] a right-winger,[6] a supporter of the European Union[7] and of French President Emmanuel Macron.[8]

Since his election as a member of the National Assembly in 2017, Son-Forget has made multiple appearances in interviews and talk shows and is an active user of social media.[4] On the Internet, his publishing of satirical content and memes drew attention from the press;[4] his use of social media has been described as "trolling" by various media outlets,[9][10][11][12] and has been the subject of controversy within French politics.

  1. ^ Forget, Joachim (31 August 2015). Visuo-vestibular mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness (Thesis). École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-6715. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  2. ^ "[단독 인터뷰]입양前 이름은 '김재덕'… 사랑하는 아내 姓따라 '손재덕'으로". www.donga.com (in Korean). 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
  3. ^ "Un député LREM né à Séoul et représentant les Français de Suisse devient... Kosovar" (in French). AFP via France 24. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Joachim Son-Forget, de «champion» macroniste à fervent soutien d'Eric Zemmour". Le Temps (in French). 2021-11-12. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  5. ^ ""Contre la trahison nationale, je voterai Macron le 24 avril"". Blick (in French). 13 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  6. ^ ""Si Éric Zemmour était d'extrême droite, je ne le soutiendrais pas !" affirme Joachim Son-Forget". Sud Radio (in French). 3 December 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  7. ^ "Le député ex-LREM Joachim Son-Forget propose une "présidence tournante"". Europe 1 (in French). 10 January 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Politique. Le député Joachim Son-Forget quitte le groupe UDI et s'affiche avec Marion Maréchal". Ouest-France (in French). 18 December 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  9. ^ Pétreault, Clément (31 December 2018). "Joachim Son-Forget : Le "roi des trolls" fonde son parti politique". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  10. ^ Le Pennec, Tony (14 February 2020). "Comment Son-Forget est devenu député-troll". Arrêt sur images (in French). Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  11. ^ Pitrel, Thomas (8 February 2019). "Joachim Son-Forget, le troll". Society (in French). No. 99. p. 62. ISSN 2426-5780.
  12. ^ Perru, Axel (2 May 2022). "Sortie de route, promotion… Que sont devenus les députés "société civile" de la Macronie ?". Marianne (in French). Retrieved 11 May 2022.