Creative Korea Party

Creative Korea Party 창조한국당 創造韓國黨 Changjo Hanguk-dang
Leader	Gong Seong-gyeong
Founded	October 14, 2007 (2007-10-14)
Headquarters	28-130 Yeongdeungpo-2 dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Ideology	Liberalism, Humanism, Centrism
Political position	Centrist
International affiliation	None
Official colours	Pink
Seats in the National Assembly	2 / 299
Seats within local government	1 / 3,893
Website
ckp.kr
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Creative Korea Party
Hangul	창조한국당
Hanja	創造韓國黨
Revised Romanization	Changjo Hangukdang
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'angjo Han'guktang

Creative Korea Party^[1] (Hangul: 창조한국당, Hanja: 創造韓國黨, Abbreviation: CKP, literally Create Korea Party) is 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.

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]

See also

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

References

1. ^ United States Department of State Factbook
2. ^ Moon Kook-hyun elected as the presidential candidate of the CKP(Korean), Kukinews, Retrieved on November 4, 2007
3. ^ >%20개표진행상황&TITLEB=개표진행상황&TITIMG=tgm02&RULE=T4 Info-system of the 2007 presidential election(Korean), the NEC, Retrieved on December 20, 2007
4. ^ Moon Kook-hyun 'will run again at the 2008 parliamentary election'(Korean), The Hankyoreh, Retrieved on December 20, 2007