Creative Korea PartyUnited States Department of State Factbook (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.Moon Kook-hyun elected as the presidential candidate of the CKP, Kukinews, Retrieved on November 4, 2007 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,>%20개표진행상황&TITLEB=개표진행상황&TITIMG=tgm02&RULE=T4 Info-system of the 2007 presidential election, the NEC, Retrieved on December 20, 2007 therefore it was judged to be a potential threat to major parties during the 2008 parliamentary election.Moon Kook-hyun 'will run again at the 2008 parliamentary election', The Hankyoreh, Retrieved on December 20, 2007
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
Legislature Election Leader Constituency Party list Seats Position Status Votes % Seats +/- Votes % Seats +/- No. +/– 2008 Han Myeon-hee 72,803 0.42 new 651,993 3.81 new new 6th 2012 3,624 0.02 1 91,935 0.43 2 2 11th
See also Politics of South Korea Lists of political parties
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