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2007–2012 political party in South Korea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Creative Korea Party[1] (Korean: 창조한국당; Hanja: 創造韓國黨; RR: Changjohangugdang; CKP) was 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; but lost all of these seats in the subsequent 2012 general election. Creative Korea Party deregistered on 26 April 2012.[citation needed]
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Creative Korea Party 창조한국당 創造韓國黨 | |
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| Leader | Han Myeon-hee |
| Founded | 14 October 2007 |
| Dissolved | 26 April 2012 |
| Split from | Uri Party |
| Merged into | Democratic Party |
| Headquarters | 28-130 Yeongdeungpo-2 dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul |
| Ideology | Centrist reformism |
| Political position | Centre |
| National affiliation | Advancement and Creation Association (2008–2009) |
| Colours | Pink |
| Website | |
| ckp.kr | |
| Creative Korea Party | |
| Hangul | 창조한국당 |
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| Hanja | 創造韓國黨 |
| Revised Romanization | Changjo Hangukdang |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ch'angjo Han'guktang |
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]
In the 2012 general election, the party received less than .1% of the constituency votes, and .4% of the national votes for proportional 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).
| Election | Candidate | Votes | % | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Moon Kook-hyun | 1,375,498 | 5.83 | Not elected |
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