Creative Korea Party

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

Creative Korea Party

창조한국당
創造韓國黨
Creative Korea Party 창조한국당; 創造韓國黨
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
	Politics of South Korea; Political parties; Elections;

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]}

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.^[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]

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

References

^ United States Department of State Factbook
^ Moon Kook-hyun elected as the presidential candidate of the CKP^{[permanent dead link]}(in Korean), Kukinews, Retrieved on November 4, 2007
^ >%20개표진행상황&TITLEB=개표진행상황&TITIMG=tgm02&RULE=T4 Info-system of the 2007 presidential election(in Korean), the NEC, Retrieved on December 20, 2007
^ Moon Kook-hyun 'will run again at the 2008 parliamentary election'(in Korean), The Hankyoreh, Retrieved on December 20, 2007

[1] United States Department of State Factbook

[2] Moon Kook-hyun elected as the presidential candidate of the CKP^{[permanent dead link]}(in Korean), Kukinews, Retrieved on November 4, 2007

[3] >%20개표진행상황&TITLEB=개표진행상황&TITIMG=tgm02&RULE=T4 Info-system of the 2007 presidential election(in Korean), the NEC, Retrieved on December 20, 2007

[4] Moon Kook-hyun 'will run again at the 2008 parliamentary election'(in Korean), The Hankyoreh, Retrieved on December 20, 2007

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