Democratic Korea Party

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The Democratic Korea Party (Korean: 민주한국당, Minju Hanguk Dang, DKP) was a political party in South Korea.

History

The DKP was established on 17 January 1981 following a meeting of fourteen former members of the New Democratic Party on 22 November 1980.^[1] Yu Chi-song was elected party president, and its candidate for the February 1981 presidential elections, in which he finished second to the incumbent president Chun Doo-hwan.

In the March 1981 parliamentary elections the DKP received 21.6% of the vote, winning 81 seats and emerging as the second-largest party to Chun's Democratic Justice Party. However, in the 1985 elections it was reduced to 35 seats.

The party received just 0.2% of the vote in the 1988 elections, failing to win a seat. It was subsequently deregistered.

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Political parties in South Korea
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In National Assembly	Parliamentary group Saenuri (129) Democratic (121) People's (38) Non-parliamentary group Justice (6)
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