Democratic Party (South Korea, 2007)

The Democratic Party (DP; Korean: 민주당; Hanja: 民主黨; RR: Minjudang) was a political party in South Korea. Formerly founded as the Centrist United Democratic Party (Korean: 중도통합민주당; Hanja: 民主黨; RR: Jungdotonghabminjudang; CUDP) after the merger of the Democratic Party (2005), it merged with the Grand Unified Democratic New Party in February 2008.

Democratic Party 민주당 民主黨
Founded	27 June 2007
Dissolved	17 February 2008
Merger of	Democratic Party (2005) New Party for Centrist Reform and Alliance
Merged into	United Democratic Party
Ideology	Liberalism (South Korean) Centrist reformism
Colours	Blue green
Politics of South Korea Political parties Elections

Democratic Party
Hangul	민주당
Hanja	民主黨
Revised Romanization	Minjudang
McCune–Reischauer	Minjutang

History

On 27 June 2007, the Democratic Party (2005) and New Party for Centrist Reform and Alliance merged and formed the Centrist United Democratic Party.

On August 13, 2007, the party changed its name to the Democratic Party.

In-je was elected the party's Presidential candidate by the delegates on 14 October 2007, but received poor results in the election on December 19: He obtained only 0.7% of the vote

On 18 February 2008, the party merged with the Grand Unified Democratic New Party to form the United Democratic Party.

Election results

Election	Candidate	Votes	%	Outcome
2007	Lee In-je	160,708	0.68	Not elected

See also

• List of political parties in South Korea
• Politics of South Korea
• Elections in South Korea
• Liberalism in South Korea
• Liberalism
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy