Creative Korea Party

Template:Liberalism in South Korea Creative Korea Party (CKP; Korean: Template:Category handler) 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. 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, therefore it was judged to be a potential threat to major parties during the 2008 parliamentary election.

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
		Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	No.	+/–
2008	Han Myeon-hee	72,803	0.42	Template:Composition bar	new	651,993	3.81	Template:Composition bar	new	Template:Composition bar	new	6th	Opposition
2012		3,624	0.02	Template:Composition bar	Decrease 1	91,935	0.43	Template:Composition bar	Decrease 2	Template:Composition bar	Decrease 2	11th	Extra-parliamentary

See also

• Politics of South Korea
• Lists of political parties