Creative Korea Party

Creative Korea Party 창조한국당 創造韓國黨
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	28-130 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
Politics of South Korea Political parties Elections

Creative Korea Party
Hangul	창조한국당
Hanja	創造韓國黨
Revised Romanization	Changjo Hangukdang
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'angjo Han'guktang

Creative Korea Party (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.

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 organizer 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. 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, therefore it was judged to be a potential threat to major parties during the 2008 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 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).

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