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Reform Party (South Korea)
The Reform Party (RP; ) is a South Korean political party jointly led by Lee Jun-seok, the former leader of the People Power Party (PPP). While initially founded by Lee Jun-seok as a conservative party after his split from the PPP, it has subsequently merged with various parties and factions led by politicians formerly affiliated with the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) and Justice Party. History The founding congress of the Reform Party was held on 20 January 2024. At the founding congress, the intention was emphasized to create a "third force", which would include the Reform Party, to oppose the Democratic Party and the PPP. The new party expressed its readiness to create coalitions. The party is led by former People Power Party leader Lee Jun-seok and the conservative Kim Yong-nam is the party's policy committee chief. On 24 January 2024, Yang Hyang-ja's Hope of Korea merged into the Reform Party ahead of the April 10 parliamentary election. On February 9, it was announc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chun Ha-ram
Chun Ha-ram (; born 10 July 1986) is a South Korean politician serving as a member of the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ... since 2024. He has served as acting leader of the Reform Party since 2025. References 1986 births Living people New Reform Party (South Korea) politicians Members of the National Assembly (South Korea) 21st-century South Korean politicians {{Korea-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Korea Times
''The Korea Times'' () is a daily English-language newspaper in South Korea. It is a sister paper of the ''Hankook Ilbo'', a major Korean language, Korean-language daily. It is the oldest active daily English-language newspaper in South Korea. Since the late 1950s, it had been published by the Hankook Ilbo Media Group, but following an embezzlement scandal in 2013–2014 it was sold to Dongwha Group in 2015. The president-publisher of ''The Korea Times'' is Oh Young-jin. Description The newspaper's headquarters is located in the same building with ''Hankook Ilbo'' on Sejong-daero between Sungnyemun and Seoul Station in Seoul, South Korea. The paper is not to be confused with ''The Korea Daily News'', a 1904 to 1910 newspaper which briefly ran under the title ''Korea Times''. It is also unrelated to another paper by Lee Myo-muk, Ha Kyong-tok and Kim Yong-ui in September 1945. History ''The Korea Times'' was founded by Helen Kim five months into the 1950-53 Korean War. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryu Ho-jeong
Ryu Ho-jeong (; born 9 August 1992) is a former South Korean politician. She was a member of the National Assembly representing the Justice Party. She was elected for the first time in the 2020 election via proportional representation in first position on her party's list, and was the youngest member of the National Assembly in the 2020–2024 term. Early life and education Ryu Ho-jeong was born in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province in 1992. She attended Changwon Kyungil Girls' High before studying at Ewha Womans University from 2011 to 2016, earning a bachelor's degree in sociology. While at Ewha Womans University, Ryu was president of "Klass Ewha", an esports game club. In 2014, she also admitted to having "boosted" her account in ''League of Legends'', a video game especially popular in South Korea, by allowing other players to share the account to raise it to a higher rank or status. Account boosting is taken much more seriously in South Korea than in other places, and ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Party Korea
Green Party Korea () is a political party in South Korea. The party was established in March 2012. It is a continuation of the Korea Greens, created following initial discussions in 2011. The party was established in response to the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis of Japan. Green Party Korea is a member of the Global Greens and the Asia Pacific Greens Federation. History As a result of the party only getting 0.48% in the 19th national parliamentary election in April 2012, the party was disbanded by the National Election Administration Office. However, the paragraph 4 of article 41 and the subparagraph 3 of paragraph 1 of article 44 of the Political Parties Act, which had revoked registration of parties and banned use of the titles of the parties whose obtained numbers of votes had been less than 2% of the total number of effective votes, were ruled unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Korea on 28 January 2014. As a result, Green Party Korea recovered its title. Green Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bareunmirae Party
The Bareunmirae Party (), also known as the Bareun Mirae Party and Bareun Future Party, was a South Korean liberal-conservative political party. It was founded in 2018 by merger of the centrist liberal People's Party (South Korea, 2016), People's Party and the conservative Bareun Party. History Founding In January 2018, leaders of the party's predecessors announced their plan to merge, in an effort to form a centrist bloc and consolidate their parliamentary standings before 2018 South Korean local elections, local elections. The merger was noted to be a bold political experiment, as People's Party is rooted in the Jeolla Provinces, while Bareun Party is rooted in the Gyeongsang Provinces. The party was formally established on 13 February 2018. The merger was commented as being "hasty", as it was announced before the two respective parties underwent due process to confirm the union, and was seen as an attempt to consolidate the plan amidst opposition. The merger plan fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrism
Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum. It is associated with moderate politics, including people who strongly support moderate policies and people who are not strongly aligned with left-wing or right-wing policies. Centrism is commonly associated with liberalism, radical centrism, and agrarianism. Those who identify as centrist support gradualism, gradual political change, often through a welfare state with moderate Redistribution of income and wealth, redistributive policies. Though its placement is widely accepted in political science, radical groups that oppose centrist ideologies may sometimes describe them as leftist or rightist. Centrist parties typically hold the middle position between major left-wing and right-wing parties, though in some cases they will hold the left-leaning or right-leaning vote if there are no viable parties in the given direction. Centrist p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moderate Conservatism
Moderate conservatism is a politically moderate version of conservatism that is less demanding than classical conservatism, and can be divided into several subtypes, such as liberal conservatism. The term is principally used in countries where the political camp is divided into ''liberals'' (meaning social liberals) on the left and ''conservatives'' on the right, rather than in countries whose political camps include social democrats on the left and their opponents on the right. For countries belonging to the former, ''moderate liberalism'' is sometimes contrasted with ''moderate conservatism''. The latter term can be applied to several countries, such as the United States, Poland, South Korea, and Japan. Overview ''Moderate conservative'' is not often used in most parts of Europe, where social democracy or socialist parties have grown into major parties since the early 20th century, because moderate conservatives in many European countries are liberal conservatives or Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonhap News
Yonhap News Agency (; ) is a major news agency in South Korea. It is based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures, and other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea. History Yonhap was established on 19 December 1980, through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press. The Hapdong News Agency itself emerged in late 1945 out of the short-lived Kukje News, which had operated for two months out of the office of the Domei, the former Japanese news agency that had functioned in Korea during the Japanese Japanese colonial era. In 1999, Yonhap took over the Naewoe News Agency. Naewoe was a South Korea government-affiliated organization, created in the mid 1970s, tasked with publishing information and analysis on North Korea from a South Korean perspective through books and journals. Naewoe was known to have close links with South Korea's intelligence agency, and according to the British academic and historian James Hoar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 South Korean Martial Law Crisis
On 3 December 2024, at 22:27 Korea Standard Time (KST), Yoon Suk Yeol, the then-president of South Korea, declared martial law during a televised address. In his declaration, Yoon accused the Democratic Party (South Korea, 2015), Democratic Party (DPK), which has a majority in the National Assembly (South Korea), National Assembly, of conducting "anti-state activities" and collaborating with "North Korean communists" to destroy the country, thereby creating a "legislative dictatorship". The order prohibited political activities, including gatherings of the National Assembly and local legislatures, and suspended the freedom of the press, free press. Separately, Yoon reportedly ordered the arrest of various political opponents, including the leaders of the DPK and his own People Power Party (South Korea), People Power Party. The event was widely characterized by news organizations, both international and domestic, and Korean politicians as an attempted self-coup. The declaration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Joon-pyo
Hong Joon-pyo (; born 20 November 1953) is a South Korean retired politician and prosecutor who served as the mayor of Daegu from 2022 to 2025. He previously served as the governor of South Gyeongsang Province, a member of the National Assembly for five terms, and the party leader of the conservative Grand National Party in 2011 and its successor incarnation the Liberty Korea Party from 2017 to 2018. He was the presidential nominee of the Liberty Korea Party in the 2017 South Korean presidential election and came in second place during the general election, losing to Moon Jae-in. Hong ran as a candidate in the 2022 South Korean presidential election for the nomination of the conservative People Power Party and came in second place during the primaries, narrowly losing to Yoon Suk Yeol. Hong was elected Mayor of Daegu in 2022, but he resigned to launch his third campaign for the presidency in the 2025 South Korean presidential election. Although he advanced from the first ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Jong-min (politician)
Kim Jong-min (; born 12 May 1964) is a South Korean politician representing the constituency of Nonsan–Gyeryong–Geumsan in the National Assembly (South Korea), National Assembly from 2016. Before entering politics Kim studied Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National University. After graduating college, Kim worked as a political journalist for newspapers—daily ''Naeil'' () and weekly ''Sisajournal'' ()—during which he met then-presidential hopeful Roh Moo-hyun. Early political career Kim first joined politics in 2003 when he started working as one of the administrators at Office of the President (South Korea), Office of Senior Secretary for Public Affairs to the President Roh (). He continued working for Roh until the end of Roh's term. In 2004 he was promoted to vice presidential spokesperson and a month later to the Roh's third presidential spokesperson becoming the youngest person to assume this post at the age of 40. Kim was Roh's first spokesperson afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
