Creative Korea Party

Creative Korea Party
Leader	Han Myeon-Hee
Founded	14 October 2007 (2007-10-14)
Dissolved	26 April 2012 (2012-04-26)
Headquarters	28-130 Yeongdeungpo-2 dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Ideology	Liberalism, Humanism, Centrism
Political position	Centrist
International affiliation	None
Colours	Pink
Website
ckp.kr
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Creative Korea Party^[1] (Hangul: 창조한국당, Hanja: 創造韓國黨, Abbreviation: CKP, literally Create Korea Party) was a political party of South Korea. It was formed out of the Uri Party and its resulting civil splinter groups, with their leader Moon Kook-hyun, a well-known former business leader who recently started his political career. Their 2007 presidential bid was unsuccessful, however, they gained 3 seats at the 2008 general election on April 9, 2008, including the election of Moon Kook-hyun at Eunpyeong-eul, Seoul district; but lost all of these seats in the subsequent 2012 general election. They were deregistered on 26 April 2012.

Party Platform

• Creating a new Social Solidarity
• Establishing a Knowledge and Creativity-based Economy
• Minimizing military tension of Korean Peninsula
• Providing 'Productive Welfare'
• Building a sustainable Social development
• Funding a Substantial Public and Lifelong Education
• Respecting Minority Rights
• Taking responsibility of the Diversity of Cultural References
• Creating Economic Cooperation in Northeast Asia

Notable members

• Moon Kook-hyun MP, Party Leader, Official Presidential candidate of the party and MP for Eunpyeong-gu 2nd electorate, Seoul
• Lee Yong-kyeong MP, former CEO of KT and Korean National Assembly MP
• Yu Won-il MP, former environmental movement organizor in Siheung, Gyeonggi Province, and Korean National Assembly MP
• Lee Jeong-ja, Chairperson of Green-consumer Network (Civil organization)

2007 Election

They held their nominating convention for 2007 presidential election on November 4, 2007. During that event, its leader Moon Kook-hyun was elected with 8,884(94.9%) of the mobile phone vote.^[2] As one of the pro-governmental liberal candidates, he and his party suffered the pressure of political simplification from several civil organizational leaders for the entire campaigning period. However, although negotiating with the UNDP politicians a lot, he eventually decided to target voters disappointed with both major parties (the UNDP and GNP) and their candidates(Chung Dong-young and Lee Myung-bak). They hoped to reach somewhat over 10% support, but gained a final result of 1.38 million voters(5.82%) which put them in 4th place. However, they earned more votes than the 10-year-old KDLP's result(3.00%), and gained strong supports (Its average was roughly 8%) from metropolitan city areas, such as Seoul and its suburbs, Incheon, Daejeon, Chuncheon, Jeju,^[3] therefore it was judged to be a potential threat to major parties during the 2008 parliamentary election.^[4]

2012 election

In the 2012 general election, the party received less than .1% of the constituency votes, and .4% of the national votes for proportional representation. It lost all three seats in the parliament. The party was dissolved as a result (The party needs to obtain at least 2% of the national votes in order for it to remain registered).

See also

• Politics of South Korea
• List of political parties
• List of Korea-related topics

References

Political parties in South Korea Numbers in brackets indicate numbers of seats in the current National Assembly (as of 2 February 2016) In National Assembly Parliamentary group Saenuri (157) Minjoo (109) Non-parliamentary group People's (17) Justice (5) In Local Assemblies Labor Politics of South Korea List of ruling political parties by country Politics portal