Korean Social Democratic Party

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The Korean Social Democratic Party was formed on November 3, 1945 by medium and small entrepreneurs, merchants, handicraftsmen, petty bourgeoisie, some peasants, and Christians, out of the masses’ anti-imperialist, anti-feudal aspirations and demands to eliminate the aftermath of Japanese imperialist military rule and build a new democratic society. Before 1980s, the party was called Democratic Party of Korea.

The party is currently headed by Kim Yong Dae, who's title is chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party.^[1]

Its guiding idea is national social democracy befitting Korea’s historical conditions and national characteristics and its basic political motto is "independence, sovereignty, democracy, peace and the defence of human rights".