The United Liberal Democrats (ULD; ) was a

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in South Korea, whose support mostly came from the

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and

South Chungcheong Province South Chungcheong Province (), informally called Chungnam, is a Administrative divisions of South Korea, province of South Korea in the Hoseo region in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula. South Chungcheong borders the provinces of Gyeonggi to ...

regions. The short Korean name is Jaminryeon (; ULD). The Party was in a government coalition with

Kim Dae-jung Kim Dae-jung (, ; 6 January 192418 August 2009) was a South Korean politician, activist and statesman who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003. Kim entered politics as a member of the new wing of the Democratic Pa ...

's Democratic Party from 1998 to 2001. In the 2004 parliamentary election, it gained only 4 seats in the National Assembly, and its president

Kim Jong-pil Kim Jong-pil (; January 7, 1926 – June 23, 2018), also known colloquially as JP, was a South Korean politician and the founder/first director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA, now the National Intelligence Service (South Kor ...

announced his retirement from politics after his bid for the 10th term in the National Assembly failed. Subsequently, most lawmakers from the party chose to defect from the party to form a new party, People First Party.

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United Liberal Democrats
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