Progressivism in South Korea

Progressivism in South Korea is broadly associated with social democracy, left-wing nationalism^[1] and communism.^[2]

Progressive parties

Preparatory Committee for National Construction → People's Party of Korea → People's Labor Party (1945–1950)
Workers' Party of South Korea (1946–1953)
Socialist Party (1951–1953)
Progressive Party (1956–1958)
United Socialist Party of Korea (1961–1967)
Hangyore Democratic Party (1988–1991)
People's Party (1988)
The People's Party (1990–1992)
People's Victory 21 → Democratic Labor Party (1997–2011)
Youth Progressive Party → Socialist Party → Korea Socialist Party → Socialist Party (1998–2012)
New Progressive Party (2008–2012)
Justice Party (2012–)

Peace and Justice (2018)

Green Party Korea (2012–)
Labor Party (2013–)
People's United Party (2016–2017)
New People's Party (2017)
Minjung Party (2017–)
Our Future (2017–)
Basic Income Party (2020-)

Banned parties

Progressive Party (1956–1958)
Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (1969–1985)
National Democratic Front of South Korea (1985–2005)
Unified Progressive Party^[3] (2011–2014)

Major progressive parties election results of South Korea

Presidential elections

Election	Candidate	Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome	Party mame
1952	Cho Pong-am	797,504	11.4%	Defeated N	Independent
1956	Cho Pong-am	2,163,808	30.0%	Defeated N	Independent

1987	Baik Ki-wan	Quit midway through			Independent
1992	Baik Ki-wan	238,648	1.0%	Defeated N	Independent
1997	Kwon Young-ghil	306,026	1.2%	Defeated N	People's Victory 21
2002	Kwon Young-ghil	957,148	3.9%	Defeated N	Democratic Labor Party
2007	Kwon Young-ghil	712,121	3.0%	Defeated N	Democratic Labor Party
2007	Geum Min	18,223	0.07%	Defeated N	Korea Socialist Party
2012	Lee Jung-hee	Quit midway through			Unified Progressive Party
	Kim So-yeon	16,687	0.05%	Defeated N	Independent
	Kim Soon-ja	46,017	0.15%	Defeated N	Independent
2017	Sim Sang-jung	2,017,458	6.17%	Defeated N	Justice Party
2017	Kim Sun-dong	27,229	0.08%	Defeated N	People's United Party

Legislative elections

Election	Total seats	Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome	Election leader	Party name
1950	2 / 210	89,413	1.3%	new 2 seats; minority	Jo So-ang	Socialist Party
1960	4 / 233	541,021	6.0%	new 4 seats; minority	Seo Sang-il	Social Mass Party
1960	1 / 233	57,965	0.6%	new 1 seats; minority	Jeon Jin-han	Korea Socialist Party
1967	1 / 175	249,561	2.3%	new 1 seats; minority	Seo Min-ho	Mass Party
1967	0 / 175	104,975	1.0%	new 0 seats; minority	Kim Cheol	Unified Socialist Party
1971	0 / 204	59,359	0.5%	1 seats; minority	Ri Mong	Mass Party
1971	0 / 204	97,398	0.9%	0 seats; minority	Kim Cheol	Unified Socialist Party

1981	2 / 276	524,361	3.2%	new 2 seats; minority	Ko Chong-hun	Democratic Socialist Party
1981	0 / 276	122,778	0.7%	new 0 seats; minority	Kim Cheol	Socialist Party
1985	1 / 276	288,863	1.4%	new 1 seats; minority	Ko Chong-hun	New Politics Socialist Party
1988	0 / 299	65,650	0.3%	new 0 seats; minority	Jeong Tae-yun	Party of the people
1988	1 / 299	251,236	1.3%	new 0 seats; minority	Ye Chun-ho	Hangyore Democratic Party

1992	0 / 229	319,041	1.5%	new 0 seats; minority	Lee U-jae	People's Party
2000	0 / 273	223,261	1.2%	new 0 seats; minority	Kwon Young-ghil	Democratic Labor Party
2000	0 / 273	125,082	0.7%	new 0 seats; minority	Choi Hyeok	Youth Progressive Party
2004	10 / 299	2,774,061	13.0%	10 seats; minority	Kwon Young-ghil	Democratic Labor Party
2004	0 / 299	47,311	0.22%	0 seats; minority	Won Yong-su	Socialist Party
2008	5 / 299	973,445	5.68%	5 seats; minority	Cheon Yeong-se	Democratic Labor Party
	0 / 299	504,466	2.94%	new 0 seats; minority	Roh Hoe-chan Sim Sang-jung	New Progressive Party
	0 / 299	35,496	0.20%	0 seats; minority	Choi Gwang-Eun	Korea Socialist Party
2012	13 / 300	2,198,405	10.3%	new 13 seats; minority	Lee Jung-hee	Unified Progressive Party
2012	0 / 300	243,065	1.13%	0 seats; minority	Hong Sehwa An Hyo-sang	New Progressive Party
2016	0 / 300	91,705	0.38%	0 seats; minority	Koo Kyo-hyun	Labor Party
	6 / 300	1,719,891	7.23%	new 6 seats; minority	Sim Sang-jung	Justice Party
	0 / 300	145,624	0.61%	0 seats; minority	Lee Gwang-seok	People's United Party
2020	6 / 300	2,697,956	9.7%	6 seats; minority	Sim Sang-jung	Justice Party

Local elections

Election	Metropolitan self-government	Metropolitan Council	Local self-government	Local Council	Party name
3rd (2002)	0 / 16	11 / 682	2 / 232	N/A	Democratic Labor Party
4th (2006)	0 / 16	15 / 733	0 / 230	66 / 2,888	Democratic Labor Party
5th (2010)	0 / 16	24 / 761	3 / 228	115 / 2,888	Democratic Labor Party
5th (2010)	0 / 16	3 / 761	0 / 228	22 / 2,888	New Progressive Party
6th (2014)	0 / 17	3 / 789	0 / 226	34 / 2,898	Unified Progressive Party
	0 / 17	1 / 789	0 / 226	6 / 2,898	Labor Party
	0 / 17	0 / 789	0 / 226	11 / 2,898	Justice Party

References

^ 현연, 조. 2019. 한국 진보 정당 운동사. 후마니타스. pp. 134-134, 141-142
^ 현연, 조. 2019. 한국 진보 정당 운동사. 후마니타스. pp. 198-199, 221-222
^ Yonhap News Agency, December 19, 2014, [1], “...South Korea's Constitutional Court on Friday ordered the dissolution of a pro-North Korean minor opposition party...”

[1] 현연, 조. 2019. 한국 진보 정당 운동사. 후마니타스. pp. 134-134, 141-142

[2] 현연, 조. 2019. 한국 진보 정당 운동사. 후마니타스. pp. 198-199, 221-222

[Yonhap-3] Yonhap News Agency, December 19, 2014, [1], “...South Korea's Constitutional Court on Friday ordered the dissolution of a pro-North Korean minor opposition party...”

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Progressive parties

Banned parties

Major progressive parties election results of South Korea

Presidential elections

Legislative elections

Local elections

See also

References