Progressive Party 진보당 | |
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| Leader | Cho Pong-am |
| General Secretary | Yun Kil-chung |
| Founded | January 26, 1956 (de facto) November 10, 1956 (de jure) |
| Dissolved | February 25, 1958 |
| Headquarters | Jongro 2-ga, Jongro-gu, South Korea |
| Membership (1956) | around 1,500[1] |
| Ideology |
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| Political position | Centre-left |
| Progressive Party | |
| Hangul | 진보당 |
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| Hanja | 進步黨 |
| Revised Romanization | Jinbodang |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chinbodang |
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Progressive Party (Korean: 진보당; Hanja: 進步黨; RR: Jinbodang; MR: Chinbodang) was a short-lived moderate left political party founded after the Korean War in South Korea under the leadership of Cho Bong-am.[3] It was a major political force from 1956 to 1958, and fell apart in 1959.
- ^ 徐·曺 兩氏 對立去益深刻 [The conflict between Seo and Jo is more intensifying]. The Kyung Hyang Press (in Chinese). 1956-08-12. Retrieved 2015-01-17 – via Naver.
- ^ Lawrence S. Kaplan, ed. (2004). NATO Divided, NATO United: The Evolution of an Alliance. Praeger. p. 26. ISBN 9780275983772.
... And when the Korean War wound down two years later, the U.S. forces became a ready target for a coalition of the liberal Progressive Party, the Communist Party, and the National Preservation Party that had won an impressive victory in ...
- ^ Kim, Yunjong (2016). The Failure of Socialism in South Korea: 1945 - 2007. New York: Routledge. p. 54.