South Korea, 2000 Democratic Party

Formerly named Millennium Democratic Party (Korean: 새천년민주당; Hanja: 새千年民主黨; RR: Saecheonnyeonminjudang; MDP), it was renamed on May 6, 2005. After its dissolution, its members joined the Uri Party or the successor Democratic Party.

Democratic Party 민주당 民主黨
Abbreviation	MDP
President	Kim Dae-jung (until 2002)
Founded	20 January 2000 May 6, 2005
Dissolved	27 June 2007
Merger of	National Congress for New Politics New People Party
Merged into	Democratic Party (2007)
Headquarters	25-4, Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
Ideology	Liberalism (South Korean) Centrist reformism Sunshine Policy Factions: Social liberalism
Political position	Centre Factions: Centre-left
National affiliation	Alliance of DJP (2000–2001)
Colours	Blue green   Turquoise
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In 2000, the party officially founded, after it merged of National Congress for New Politics and New People Party led by Lee In-je and a number of conservative minded politicians joined it. In the 2000 Parliamentary election the party came second winning 115 seats.

Roh Moo-hyun was elected as president in 2002, but he subsequently left the party after he inaugurated as president and his supporters formed the Uri Party in 2003.

The MDP lost majority when Roh was impeached in March 2004 by the National Assembly for illegal electioneering and incompetence charges with support from the Grand National Party, losing 53 seats to a total of only 9 seats in the 2004 parliamentary election. Roh Moo-hyun was later re-instated by the Constitutional Court, and served as president until the end of his term.

By June 2007, much of the party joined the Uri Party, while the New People faction merged the party with the Central Reform United New Party to form a new Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party is a political party led by Kim Dae-jung individual charisma and is generally classified as "liberalism" (Korean: 자유주의) or "conservative liberalism" (Korean: 보수자유주의 or 보수적 자유주의). Later in 2017, South Korea's centre-right conservative politician Ha Tae-keung said of Kim Dae-jung, "He devoted his life to democracy and the market economy in Korea", adding, "He is a big adult in the conservative camp".

South Korean centrist conservative-liberal politician Sohn Hak-kyu said "the (Democratic Party of Korea's) DJ period was a complete 'centrist', but the Roh Moo-hyun government and the Moon Jae-in government were on the 'left-leaning' side". (For your information, "DJ" is an abbreviation for "Dae-jung".)

Kim Dae-jung and the Democratic Party enacted the 'Domestic Violence Prevention Act' (Korean: 가정폭력금지법) and the 'Anti Male and Female Discrimination Act' (Korean: 남녀차별금지법), and established the 'Ministry of Gender Equality" (Korean: 여성부). Also, Kim Dae-jung himself was a feminist. On the other hand, he pursued a typical conservative economic agenda and was called a "Neoliberal Revolutionist" (Korean: 신자유주의 혁명가).

Candidates

This is a list of official pre-registered candidates that declared their 2007 presidential bid.

• Kim Yeong-hwan(김영환), former Assembly member and also former Minister of Science and Technology of the Kim Dae-jung Administration has been declared not to run its presidential primary on August 31, 2007

President

Legislature

Election	Leader	Constituency				Party list				Seats		Position	Status
		Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	No.	+/–
2000	Kim Dae-jung	6,780,625	35.87	96 / 227	new			19 / 46	new	115 / 273	new	2nd	Government
2004	Cho Soon-hyung	1,698,368	7.96	5 / 243	91	1,510,178	7.09	4 / 56	15	9 / 299	106	4th	Opposition

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