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The Laboring People's Party () of Korea was a
centre-left Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The ...
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left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...
political party in South Korea and North Korea. Under the leadership of Lee Yong, the party continued to operate in
North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
where it participated in elections. It won seats in the Supreme People's Assembly at least in 1957. Two of its delegates were purged in the aftermath of the
August Faction Incident The August Faction Incident ( ko, 8월 종파 사건), officially called the "Second Arduous March", was an attempted removal of Kim Il-sung from power by leading North Korean figures from the Soviet-Korean faction and the Yan'an faction, with ...
sometime between 1957 and 1959. Among those purged was Lee Yong.


See also

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Democratic Independent Party Democratic Independent Party (; ) was a centrist political party in North and South Korea. The party was established on 19 October 1947. Its initiators were An Jae-hong, , Hong Myong-hui, Kim Ho, Pak Yong-hee, and Kim Won-yong. Of them, Hon ...
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Hong Myong-hui Hong Myong-hui or Hong Myung-hee (; July 3, 1888 – March 5, 1968) was a Korean novelist during the colonial period, and later a North Korean novelist and state official. He was born in Dongbu-ri, Goesan county, Chungcheongbuk-do, where h ...
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Progressivism in South Korea Progressivism () in South Korea is broadly associated with social democracy, cultural progressivism and left-wing nationalism. South Korea's "progressivism" is often used in a similar sense to 'South Korean Left' or 'leftist'. Historically, t ...
* Socialism in South Korea


References

Centre-left parties in Asia Defunct political parties in South Korea Labour parties Left-wing nationalist parties Left-wing parties in South Korea Political parties disestablished in 1949 Political parties established in 1947 Political parties in North Korea Progressive parties in South Korea Social democratic parties in Korea 1947 establishments in South Korea 1949 disestablishments in South Korea {{Korea-party-stub