Andy Kim is elected to the federal Senate in New Jersey...for the first time in Korean history

Representative Andy Kim, the first Korean to challenge the U.S. Senate, won the election with the presidential election on the 5th local time, the Associated Press reported.

Kim is the first Korean to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

Kim, a Democrat who served as a three-term congressman in New Jersey, won the Democratic nomination for federal Senate in the state's primary in June.

New Jersey is the Democratic dominant state where the Democratic candidate has been elected to the federal Senate since 1972.

Andy Kim declared his candidacy for the Senate in September last year after Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey was put on trial on bribery and other charges.

Kim Jung-han, a second-generation immigrant, is a genetic engineer who has worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University and has devoted his life to treating cancer and Alzheimer's.