Minju Party (South Korea, 2005)

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민주당
Minju-dang
Democratic Party
founding January 20, 2000
resolution June 27, 2007
Headquarters Yeongdeungpo-gu ( 영등포구 ),
Seoul ( 서울시 )
Alignment Liberal
Colours) green
Korean spelling
Korean alphabet : 민주당
Revised Romanization : Minju-dang
McCune-Reischauer : Minju-tang

The Minju Party ( Korean : 민주당 , transliteration : Minju-dang , in German : Democratic Party ) was a liberal party in South Korea , which was renamed in May 2005 from the Sae-cheonnyeon-minju-dang ( 새천년 민주당 , Democratic Party of the New Millennium) and existed until June 2007.

history

The party was founded on January 20, 2000 as Sae-cheonnyeon-minju-dang and was essentially formed from the Sae-jeongchi-gungmin-hoeui ( 새 정치 국민회 의 , National New Politics Congress), three years from now previously members of the divided Tonghap-minju-dang ( 통합 민주당 , United Democratic Party (1995)) were added. A smaller party that was involved in the merger called itself the New Citizens' Party and was not of great importance.

The most influential politician of the party was Kim Dae-jung ( 김대중 ), who was still the state president of the country from 1998 under the party's National Congress for New Politics and who pushed for the establishment of the Democratic Party of the New Millennium in order to lead the parliamentary elections with a new party identity to be able to compete in April 2000. His party emerged from the election as the strongest force and was thus able to continue to effectively support Kim's policies, such as his sunshine policy towards North Korea , which was aimed at a peaceful reunification of North and South Korea through opening and rapprochement. In 2002, the party nominated Roh Moo-hyun ( stellt ) as a presidential candidate. He won the election, but resigned from the party after taking office in 2003 and founded the Yeollin-uri party ( 열린 우리당 , Yeollin-uri-dang, Our Open Party) with his supporters , which led to the split in the party. The Yeollin-uri party then proclaimed to be the true presidential party.

In the 2004 general election, the Yeollin-uri party won an absolute majority in the National Assembly with 152 seats and Kim Dae-jung's party fell to 9 seats, a result that no longer gave it parliamentary group status. On May 6, 2005, the party was renamed Minju-dang ( 민주당 , Democratic Party). In the following presidential election in 2007, the party could no longer convince the voters and suffered another severe election defeat.

It finally broke up on June 27, 2007 and joined the Tonghap-minju-dang (United Democratic Party), which after another renaming in 2008 led to a new Minju party ( 민주당 , Democratic Party).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes B. Mosler: The Political Parties of South Korea . In: Country Report Korea . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-8389-0577-8 , Chapter: Part B: South Korea - I. Political System, p. 125 .
  2. ^ Liberalism in South Korea . America Pink , accessed May 11, 2016 .
  3. ^ Norman D. Levin, Yong-Sup Han : Sunshine in Korea . The South Korean Debate over Policies Toward North Korea . RAND , Santa Monica 2002, ISBN 0-8330-3321-2 , pp.  67 .
  4. ^ Yuki Asaba : Presidentialism in Korea: A Strong President and a Weak Government . In: Yuko Kasuya (Ed.): Presidents, Assemblies and Policy-making in Asia . Palgrave Macmillian , Basingstoke, Hampshire 2013, ISBN 978-1-137-27726-8 , Chapter: 3.3 Case studies .
  5. ↑ Jinwung Kim : A History of Korea . from "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict . Indiana University Press , Bloomington, Indiana 2012, ISBN 978-0-253-00024-8 , pp.  531 .
  6. ^ Republic of Korea . In: Country Fact Sheet . Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada , January 3, 2007, p.  531 ( Online [PDF; 63 kB ; accessed on May 17, 2016]).