United Liberal Democrats

The United Liberal Democrats (Korean: 자유민주연합) was a right-wing[1][2] conservative[3] political party in South Korea, whose support mostly came from the North Chungcheong and South Chungcheong regions. The short Korean name is Jamin-ryeon (Korean: 자민련; ULD).

United Liberal Democrats 자유민주연합
Founded	March 30, 1995
Dissolved	April 7, 2006
Merged into	People First Party Hannara Party
Headquarters	Seoul, South Korea
Ideology	Regionalism Conservatism Social conservatism
Political position	Right-wing
Colors	Green
Politics of South Korea Political parties Elections

United Liberal Democrats
Hangul	자유민주연합
Hanja	自由民主聯合
Revised Romanization	Jayu Minju Yeonhap
McCune–Reischauer	Chayu Minju Yŏnhap

The Party was in a government coalition with Kim Dae-jung's Democratic Party from 1998 to 2001.

In the 2004 parliamentary election, it gained only 4 seats in the National Assembly, and its president Kim Jong-pil announced his retirement from politics after his bid for the 10th term in the National Assembly failed. Subsequently, most lawmakers from the party chose to defect from the party to form a new party, People First Party. Kim Hak-won, the only remaining lawmaker of the party who was also the president of the party then, announced the merger of the party with the main opposition Grand National Party on February 20, 2006.

See also

• Politics of South Korea
• List of political parties in South Korea
• List of Korea-related topics

References

1. Bluth, Christoph (2008), Korea, Polity, p. 104, ISBN 9780745633572
2. Helgesen, Geir (2002), "Imported democracy: The South Korean experience", Globalization and Democratization in Asia, Routledge, p. 90, ISBN 9780415277303
3. Bluth, Christoph (2011), Crisis on the Korean Peninsula, Potomac Books, p. 89, ISBN 9781574888874

External links

• United Liberal Democrats official site (in English)