Democratic Party (South Korea)

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{{Infobox Political Party | colorcode=#0000FF | party_name=Democratic Party | party_logo= | leader=Han Wha-gap (한화갑) | foundation= | headquarters= | ideology=Liberalism | international= | website=www.minjoo.or.kr }} Template:Politics of South Korea The Democratic Party (Template:Ko-hhrm) is a political party of South Korea. It used to be called Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), but changed its name to the present form on May 6, 2005.

President Roh Moo-hyun was elected as the party's candidate in 2002, but he subsequently left the party and his supporters formed the Uri Party in 2003.

The MDP lost popularity when Roh was impeached in March of 2004 by the National Assembly for illegal electioneering and incompetence charges with support from the Grand National Party, losing 53 seats to a total of only 9 seats in the 2004 parliamentary election. Roh Moo-hyun has since then been re-instated by the Constitutional Court.

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

External links

• Democratic Party official site

Template:Liberalparty-stub Template:Asia-party-stub Template:Korea-stubko:민주당 (대한민국, 2005) ja:民主党 (韓国)