Democratic Labor Party (South Korea)

Democratic Labor Party 민주노동당 Minju Nodongdang
President	Lee Junghee
Secretary general	Oh Byung-Yoon
Assembly leader	Kang Gi-gap
Founded	January 2000 (2000-01)
Headquarters	Jongdo Building, 25-1 Mullaedong2-ga, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
Ideology	Democratic socialism, Korean nationalism, Left-wing nationalism
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	None
Official colours	Orange
Seats in the National Assembly	6 / 299
Seats within local government	143 / 3,893
Website
kdlp.org
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Democratic Labor Party (South Korea)
Hangul	민주노동당
Hanja	民主勞動黨
Revised Romanization	Minju Nodongdang
McCune–Reischauer	Minju Nodong-dang

The Democratic Labor Party (DLP), established in January 2000, is a left-wing nationalist, democratic socialist political party in South Korea. It was founded in the effort to create a political wing for the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, considered more left and independent of the two union federations in South Korea. Current party president Lee Jung-hee and the assembly leader Kang Gi-gap, who is twice-elected congressman.

The party gained 10 seats in the National Assembly for the first time in the 2004 parliamentary election.

Before and during the 2007 presidential election, conflicts arose between two main factions within the party.

After the 2007 presidential election, some members (known as 'People's Democracy Faction') quit the party and opened New Progressive Party. The reason of split was conflict between NL (National Liberation) & PD (People's Democracy) which NL's send the document of South Korean who will help when North Korea will take action. But, they didn't apologize or punish who did it. So, PD's split out of the party . Despite that split, DLP gained 5 seats in the National Assembly in the 2008 election, whereas NPP gained none. But, in the 2009 election NPP got one seat.

See also

• Politics of South Korea
• List of political parties
• List of Korea-related topics
• Kwon Young-ghil