Creative Korea Party

Creative Korea Party 창조한국당 Sáng tạo Hàn Quốc đảng
Leader	Han Myeon-hee
Founded	14 October 2007(2007-10-14)
Dissolved	26 April 2012(2012-04-26)
Split from	Uri Party
Merged into	Democratic Party
Headquarters	28-130Yeongdeungpo-2 dong,Yeongdeungpo-gu,Seoul
Ideology	Centrist reformism
Political position	Centre
National affiliation	Advancement and Creation Association (2008–2009)
Colours	Pink
Website
ckp.kr
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Creative Korea Party
Hangul	창조한국당
Hanja	Sáng tạo Hàn Quốc đảng
Revised Romanization	Changjo Hangukdang
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'angjo Han'guktang

Creative Korea Party(Korean:창조한국당;Hanja:Sáng tạo Hàn Quốc đảng;RR:Changjohangugdang;CKP) was a political party ofSouth Korea.It was formed out of theUri Partyand its resulting civil splinter groups, with their leaderMoon Kook-hyun,a well-known former business leader who recently started his political career. Their2007 presidential bidwas unsuccessful, however, they gained 3 seats at the2008 general electionon April 9, 2008, including the election ofMoon Kook-hyunatEunpyeong-eul, Seouldistrict; but lost all of these seats in the subsequent2012 general election.Creative Korea Party deregistered on 26 April 2012.

Party platform

• Creating a new Social Solidarity
• Establishing a Knowledge and Creativity-based Economy
• Minimizing military tension ofKorean 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-hyunMP,Party Leader,Official Presidential candidateof the party andMPforEunpyeong-gu 2nd electorate,Seoul
• Lee Yong-kyeongMP,formerCEOofKTand Korean National AssemblyMP
• Yu Won-ilMP,formerenvironmental movementorganizer inSiheung,Gyeonggi Province, and Korean National AssemblyMP
• Lee Jeong-ja, Chairperson of Green-consumer Network (Civil organization)

2007 Election

They held their nominating convention for2007 presidential electionon November 4, 2007. During that event, its leaderMoon Kook-hyunwas elected with 8,884(94.9%) of the mobile phone vote.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 withthe UNDPpoliticians a lot, he eventually decided to target voters disappointed with both major parties (the UNDP and GNP) and their candidates(Chung Dong-youngandLee 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-oldKDLP's result(3.00%), and gained strong supports (Its average was roughly 8%) from metropolitan city areas, such asSeoulandits suburbs,Incheon,Daejeon,Chuncheon,Jeju,therefore it was judged to be a potential threat to major parties during the2008 parliamentary election.

2012 election

In the 2012 general election, the party received less than.1% of the constituency votes, and.4% of the national votes forproportional representation.It lost all three seats in the parliament. The party was dissolved as a result (The party needs to obtain at least 2% of the national votes in order for it to remain registered).

Electoral results

President

Election	Candidate	Votes	%	Result
2007	Moon Kook-hyun	1,375,498	5.83	Not elected

Legislature

Election	Leader	Constituency				Party list				Seats		Position	Status
		Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	No.	+/–
2008	Han Myeon-hee	72,803	0.42	1 / 245	new	651,993	3.81	2 / 54	new	3 / 299	new	6th	Opposition
2012		3,624	0.02	0 / 246	1	91,935	0.43	0 / 54	2	0 / 300	2	11th	Extra-parliamentary

See also

• Politics of South Korea
• Lists of political parties