Senator-elect Andy Kim (D-NJ) poses at a hotel in his constituency with his family after winning a Senate seat, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on Nov. 5 (US time). Yonhap

Andy Kim, a 42-year-old Democrat and son of immigrants, won a decisive victory in the race for New Jersey's U.S. Senate seat. This election win took place on Nov. 7, alongside the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Kim will make history as the first Korean American senator and the third-youngest member of the Senate.

The Democrat senator-elect from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, said of his political win that "politics isn't an exclusive club, just for the well-off and the well-connected." He was born in Boston in 1982 to a father who was a medical researcher and a mother who was a nurse, both from Korea.

Unlike the 435-member House of Representatives, the Senate is made up of 100 members and holds greater influence over foreign policy and security matters. Kim has an extensive foreign policy portfolio, having worked in the State Department, the Department of Defense and the White House Security Council from 2013 to 2015, during Barack Obama's........

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