- The Liberal Party (Korean: 자유당; Hanja: 自由黨) was a political party in South Korea established in 1951 by Syngman Rhee. History [ edit ] As the 1952 Presidential Elections neared, Rhee made public his intention to organize a party during his August 15 Speech in 1951. [4]
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The Liberal Party (Korean: 자유당; Hanja: 自由黨) was a political party in South Korea established in 1951 by Syngman Rhee. History. As the 1952 Presidential Elections neared, Rhee made public his intention to organize a party during his August 15 Speech in 1951.
- 17 December 1951
- Lee Jae-hak
Presently the Democratic Party of Korea, and the People Party are the main successors of the liberal parties' tradition. South Korean liberals are strongly ethnically nationalist embracing Korean nationalism , thus favoring a reconciliatory approach towards North Korea .
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The Liberty Korea Party was a conservative political party in South Korea that was described variously as right-wing, right-wing populist, or far-right. Until February 2017, it was known as the Saenuri Party, and before that as the Hannara Party from 1997 to 2012, both of which are still colloquially used to refer to the party. The party formerly held a plurality of seats in the 20th Assembly before its ruling status was transferred to the Democratic Party of Korea on 27 December 2016, following
The party was founded in 1997, when the United Democratic Party and New Korea Party merged. Its earliest ancestor was the Democratic Republican Party under the authoritarian rule of Park Chung-hee in 1963. On Park's death, and at the beginning of the rule of Chun Doo-hwan in 1980
Three months later, in 1998, with the election of Kim Dae-jung of the Democratic Party as president, the conservative party's governing role came to an end, and it began its first ever period in opposition, which would last ten years. In October 2012, the Advancement Unification
On 19 December 2007, the GNP's candidate, former Seoul mayor Lee Myung-bak won the presidential election, ending the party's ten-year period in opposition. In the April 2008 general election, the GNP secured a majority of 153 seats out of 299 and gained power in the administratio
In February 2012, the party changed its political official color from blue to red. This was a change from the previous 30 years where blue was usually the symbol of the conservative parties.
The party supports free trade and neoliberal economic policies. It favors maintaining strong cooperation with the United States and Japan while distancing South Korea from North Korea. The party is also conservative on social issues such as opposition to legal recognition of same-sex couples.
The party has records of secretly hiring and paying university students to generate online replies favorable to the GNP. GNP member Jin Seong-ho formally apologized on 2 July 2009, for making a remark that "the GNP occupied Naver," one of the biggest South Korean internet portals
The party passed a bill relating to the year 2011 national budget without the opposition parties' input on 8 December 2010. It had caused legislative violence before. This process of passing the budget bill sparked controversy over potential illegality. Due to this incident, many
Certain members of the Liberty Korea Party have faced criticism for expressing anti-refugee, homophobic views and advocacy of authoritarian rules of the October Restoration.
- 17 February 2020
- United Future Party
- 18, Gukhoe-daero 70-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, 149-871
- Right-wing to far-right, Historical:, Centre-right to right-wing
Liberal Party (1951–1960) Democratic Republican Party (1963–1980) Democratic Justice Party (1981–1990) Democratic Liberal Party → New Korea Party (1990–1997) Hannara Party → Saenuri Party → Liberty Korea Party (1997–2020) Minor parties. Korean Resistance Party (1945–1950) Federation Korean National Independence (1947–1951)
Introduction. Note: the word liberal in South Korea is often used in its traditional sense. Liberal parties in the American sense of the term tend to label themselves as "Democratic" or "Progressive" instead. There has been a tradition of liberal parties since 1955, often organized around persons. Presently the Democratic Party of Korea, and the People Party are the main successors of the liberal parties' tradition.
The New Korea Party was founded by the merging of Roh Tae-woo's Democratic Justice Party, Kim Young Sam's Reunification Democratic Party and Kim Jong-pil's New Democratic Republican Party to form the Democratic Liberal Party. It was renamed the New Korea Party in 1995. In 1997, the NKP merged with the United Democratic Party to form the Grand National Party. DLP logo
- 22 January 1990 (as Democratic Liberal Party), 1995 (as New Korea Party)
- Lee Hoi-chang
The Democratic Party (Korean: 민주당, Minju Dang, DP) was a political party in South Korea. The party was the first truly organized liberal opposition against Syngman Rhee's Liberal Party, and is considered as the predecessor to the lineage of the South Korean liberal parties
- 1964
- Seoul, South Korea
- 1955
- Civil Rule Party
The Democratic Party (DP), known as the Democratic United Party (DUP) until 2013, was a social-liberal political party in South Korea, and for the duration of its existence the country's main opposition force.
- 26 March 2014
- Liberalism (South Korean), Social liberalism
- 15 December 2011
- Centre to centre-left