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New Democratic Unionist Party
The New United Democratic Party (; NUDP) was a political party of South Korea from 1987 to 1991. The party was established as the Peace Democratic Party (; PDP) in October 1987 by Kim Dae-jung and his followers to contest the presidential election that year. The party later merged with Democratic Party to form the Democratic Party. History Following the June Struggle of 1987, and the June 29 Declaration, which promised direct, democratic election of the president in the upcoming presidential election in December of that year, speculation for the potential candidacy of Kim Dae-jung for the presidency grew. The Declaration also promised amnesty to Kim Dae-jung, who was under the house-arrest and was barred from engaging in any political activity under the fabricated charge of "inciting rebellion" since 1981. While Kim Dae-jung was barred from engaging in any political activities, Kim Young-sam emerged as the main opposition leader. Despite the effort to present the single "dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Dae-jung
Kim Dae-jung (; ; 6 January 192418 August 2009), was a South Korea, South Korean politician and activist who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003. He was a 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea and Japan. He is also the only Korean to have won the Nobel Prize to date. He was sometimes referred to as "the Nelson Mandela of Asia". Kim was the first opposition candidate to win the presidency. Early life Kim Dae-Jung was born on 6 January 1924, but he later edited his birth date to 3 December 1925 to avoid conscription under Korea under Japanese rule, Japanese colonial rule. Kim was the second of seven children. His father, Kim Un-sik, was a farmer. Kim was a 12th generation descendant of Kim Ik-soo (김익수;金益壽) who served as Second Minister of the Board of War (병조참판;兵曹參判) and the civil minister ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 29 Declaration
The June 29 Declaration (), officially titled the Special Declaration for Grand National Harmony and Progress Towards a Great Nation (), was a speech by Roh Tae-woo, presidential candidate of the ruling Democratic Justice Party of South Korea, on 29 June 1987. In the declaration, Roh promised significant concessions to opponents of the incumbent authoritarian regime of Chun Doo-hwan who had been pressing for democracy. Roh went on to win the open presidential elections that were held that year, the first for at least the fifteen years since the October Yushin of 1972. The question of the role of the June 29 Declaration is important in the historiography of South Korean democratization. According to proponents of the view that this was a "pacted" transition, achieved by calculated compromise by the ruling elite, the June 29 Declaration was the crucial turning point in the development of these calculations.Kim, S., "Civil Society and Democratization in South Korea", in Armstrong, C. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of South Korea
The politics of the Republic of Korea take place in the framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the president is the head of state, and of a multi-party system. The government exercises executive power and legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature and comprises a Supreme Court, appellate courts, and a Constitutional Court. Since 1948, the constitution has undergone five major revisions, each signifying a new republic. The current Sixth Republic began with the last major constitutional revision in 1987. National government Executive branch , President , Yoon Suk-yeol , People Power Party , 10 May 2022 , - , Prime Minister , Han Duck-soo , Independent , 22 May 2022 The head of state is the president, who is elected by direct popular vote for a single five-year term. The president is Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of Korea Armed Forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Political Parties In South Korea
This article lists political parties in South Korea. South Korea has a weakly institutionalized multi-party system, characterized by frequent changes in party arrangements. Political parties have a chance of gaining power alone. Current parties Main parties Local-parliamentary parties Extra-parliamentary parties Conservative parties * Revolution Party (혁명21당) * Liberty Party (자유당) * Inter-Korean Unification Party (남북통일당) * Pro-Park New Party (친박신당) * Our Republican Party (우리공화당) * Liberty Unification Party (자유통일당), formerly Christian Liberal Unification Party (기독자유통일당) * Dawn of Liberty (자유의새벽당) *Saenuri Party (2017) (새누리당) * New National Participation Party (국민참여신당) * Let's Go! Korea (가자코리아) * The Christian Party (기독당) * Dokdo is Korea Party (독도한국당) * Liberty Democratic Party (자유민주당) * New Korean Peninsula Party (신한반도당) * Dawn of Civ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 South Korean Local Elections
Two local elections were held in South Korea in 1991. District, city and county councilor elections were held on 26 March 1991, while metropolitan city and provincial councilor elections were held on 20 June 1991. District, city and county councilor elections Elections for 4,304 district, city and county councilors were held on 26 March 1991. 13,238,308 voters, or 55% of the 24,067,144 registered voters, voted in the elections. A re-election was held on 30 April 1991 in a constituency in Seonju-dong, Gumi, North Gyeongsang after Kim Pan-su, a candidate who was set to be elected without a vote, withdrew on 25 March following his arrest for paying the only opposing candidate in the constituency to withdraw from the election. Metropolitan city and provincial councilor elections Elections for 866 metropolitan city and provincial councilors were held on 20 June 1991.16,533,934 voters, or 58.9% of the 28,083,024 registered voters, voted in the elections. Results summary Results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Young-sook (born 1932)
Park Young-sook (born December 18, 1988) is a South Korean table tennis player. She won two doubles titles at the ITTF World Tour The ITTF World Tour, known as the ITTF Pro Tour until 2011, is an annual series of table tennis tournaments introduced by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) in 1996. The tour includes events in seven categories: Men's and Women's Single ..., the first one was in 2009. References 1988 births Living people South Korean female table tennis players Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games World Table Tennis Championships medalists Asian Games competitors for South Korea 21st-century South Korean women {{SouthKorea-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Korea Party
The New Korea Party (; NKP) 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 (; DLP). It was renamed to ''New Korea Party'' in 1995. In 1997, the NKP merged with the Democratic Party to form the Grand National Party 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 Hanna .... Election results President Legislature Local References {{Authority control 1990 establishments in South Korea 1997 disestablishments in South Korea Anti-communism in South Korea Anti-communist parties Conservative parties in South Korea Defunct political parties in South Korea National conservative parties Liberty Korea Party Political part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Democratic Republican Party
The New Democratic Republican Party (Korean: 신민주공화당 ''Sin-minju-gonghwa-dang'') was a South Korean political party which formed in 1987 and dissolved in 1990. It was particularly strong in Hoseo, the home region of party leader Kim Jong-pil. However, it merged with two other parties in 1990 to form the Democratic Liberal Party. History After the 1979 South Korean coup d'état, the Democratic Republican Party of former dictator Park Chung-hee was banned by the new government under Chun Doo-hwan. In its stead, former members of the DRP and organisations such as the Yushin Jeongu Association (유신정우회) formed a new group named the Korean National Party and attempted to become an alternative party against the mainstream one and sought to secure the greatest number of seats. Their goal failed, however, due to accusations of financial corruption and subsequent punishment by the ruling regime. The KNP withered away after the 1985 legislative elections, and the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Justice Party
The Democratic Justice Party (; DJP) was the ruling party of South Korea from 1981 to 1988. History Chun had become the country's de facto leader after leading a military coup in December 1979, and was elected president in his own right in August 1980. Two months after taking office, he abolished all political parties, including Park Chung-hee's Democratic Republican Party, which had ruled the country since 1963, and with few viable constraints on its power since Park's self-coup of 1971. A new Constitution, which inaugurated the Fifth Republic, was enacted later in October. The following January, Chun created the Democratic Justice Party, which garnered the support of most DRP lawmakers and politicians; for all intents and purposes it was the DRP under a new name. He was elected as the first president of the Fifth Republic in 1981. Although the DJP won large majorities at legislative elections in 1981 and 1985 and the system was heavily rigged in its favor, it had far l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeolla
Jeolla Province (, ) was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of Joseon in today Southwestern Korea. It consisted of the modern South Korean provinces of North Jeolla, South Jeolla and Gwangju Metropolitan City as well as the Jeju Province. The provincial capital was Jeonju, the current capital of North Jeolla. The entire inland region was called Honam ("South of the Lake"), which is still commonly used today. History Samhan and Samguk During the Samhan era of Korean history, the area of Jeolla was controlled by the Mahan confederacy and the Tamna kingdom on Jeju. Fifteen of the 45 Korean tribes had their bases in this region. When Baekje overtook Mahan by the 5th century, the Three Kingdoms era began and the region became part of southern Baekje. Jungbang was the center of the province during this period. Unified Silla When Silla conquered Baekje with the help of Tang China in 660, it became a territory of Later Silla during the 16th year of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul
Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 of the 1948 constitution. According to the 2020 census, Seoul has a population of 9.9 million people, and forms the heart of the Seoul Capital Area with the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province. Considered to be a global city and rated as an Alpha – City by Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC), Seoul was the world's fourth largest metropolitan economy in 2014, following Tokyo, New York City and Los Angeles. Seoul was rated Asia's most livable city with the second highest quality of life globally by Arcadis in 2015, with a GDP per capita (PPP) of around $40,000. With major technology hubs centered in Gangnam and Digital Media City, the Seoul Capital Area is home to the headquarters of 15 ''Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 South Korean Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 26 April 1988.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II'', p420 The result was a victory for the ruling Democratic Justice Party (DJP), which won 125 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 75.8%. This was the first time in Korean history the ruling party did not win a majority in the National Assembly since 1950. In January 1990, the DJP merged with other two opposition parties, leaving Kim Dae-jung-led Peace Democratic Party to be the sole opposition party. Political parties The governing Democratic Justice Party (DJP) had recently elected President Roh Tae-woo. While remaining the largest party, the DJP lost its absolute parliamentary majority. The party was hindered by a stronger opposition and the unpopularity of former party leader and President Chun Doo-hwan. The opposition Peace Democratic Party led by veteran opposition leader Kim Dae- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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