Korea Democratic Party 한국민주당 韓國民主黨 | |
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| Abbreviation | KDP |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Dissolved | 1949 |
| Succeeded by | Democratic Nationalist Party |
| Headquarters | Seoul |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Right-wing[1][4][5] |
| Colours | Green |
^ A: The KDP belongs to the Minjudangkye liberal party genealogy, not the pro-Rhee conservative party genealogy of South Korea, but the actual political stance at the time was right-wing conservative.[5][6] | |
| Korea Democratic Party | |
| Hangul | 한국민주당 |
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| Hanja | 韓國民主黨 |
| Revised Romanization | Hangungminjudang |
| McCune–Reischauer | Han'gungminjudang |
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The Korea Democratic Party (Korean: 한국민주당; Hanja: 韓國民主黨, KDP) was the leading opposition party in the first years of the First Republic of Korea. It existed from 1945 to 1949, when it merged with other opposition parties.
The U.S. military government has defined the KDP as conservatives with high educational standards, and believed they wanted Western democracy.[7] However, modern South Korean political academia recognizes them as South Korea's first liberal party. The KDP was right-wing, anti-communist, Confucian conservative, economically liberal, and anti-communist.[4]
- ^ a b James E. Hoare, ed. (2019). Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 323. ISBN 9781538119747.
In December 1945, the United States Army Military Government proscribed it in the south, preferring to work with right-wing nationalist groups such as the Korea Democratic Party.
- ^ Gerry van Tonder, ed. (2018). North Korea Invades the South: Across the 38th Parallel, June 1950. Pen and Sword. ISBN 9781526708205.
... and the pro-American, right-wing movement, the Korean Democratic Party (KDP) were actively vying for political control. In North Korea, however, ..
- ^ Sheldon W. Simon, ed. (2016). East Asian Security in the Post-Cold War Era. Routledge. p. 61. ISBN 9781315486604.
Widening divisions between Korean political rivals, most notably Kim Il-song's communist North Korean Workers' Party and Syngman Rhee's pro-American Korean Democratic Party (KDP) based in South Korea, complicated the task of managing a ...
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
HFwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Tosh Minohara, Evan Dawley, ed. (2020). Beyond Versailles: The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East Asia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 111. ISBN 9781498554473.
... and then after the war they rallied around the Korean Democratic Party, a conservative right-wing party. ...
- ^ Hugh Dyson Walker, ed. (2012). East Asia: A New History. AuthorHouse. p. 610. ISBN 9781477265161.
... Now led by members of the Korean Democratic Party, it retained nearly 80% of police who had formerly served under the Japanese. The right-wing outlook of the Korean Democratic Party kept conservative control in politics, the military, ...
- ^ FRUS, 1945, VI, pp. 1049-53, 1059-1061