Creative Korea Party
{{Short description|2007–2012 political party in South Korea}}
{{update|date=November 2010}}
{{Infobox political party
| native_name = 창조한국당
| logo = 창조한국당 로고.svg
| leader = Han Myeon-hee
| foundation = {{start date|df=y|2007|11|7}}
| dissolution = {{end date|df=y|2012|4|12}}
| headquarters = 28-130 Yeongdeungpo-2 dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
| split = Grand Unified Democratic New Party
| ideology = Centrist reformism
| position = Centre
| national = Advancement and Creation Association (2008–2009)
| colours = Red
| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20071221200721/http://www.ckp.kr/ ckp.kr]
| country = South Korea
| colorcode = {{party color|Creative Korea Party}}
| footnotes = {{Infobox Korean name/auto
|hangul=^창조_^한국당
|hanja=創造韓國黨
|child=yes
}}
}}
{{Liberalism in South Korea|Parties2}}
Creative Korea Party[https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2800.htm United States Department of State Factbook] (CKP; {{korean|hangul=창조한국당}}) 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.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
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.[http://www.kukinews.com/news/article/view.asp?page=1&gCode=pol&arcid=0920709818&cp=du Moon Kook-hyun elected as the presidential candidate of the CKP]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{in lang|ko}}, 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,[http://www.nec.go.kr:7070/pdextern/Main/main.jsp?GUBUN=map&NAME=02&TITLE=투개표%20>%20개표진행상황&TITLEB=개표진행상황&TITIMG=tgm02&RULE=T4 Info-system of the 2007 presidential election]{{in lang|ko}}, the NEC, Retrieved on December 20, 2007 therefore it was judged to be a potential threat to major parties during the 2008 parliamentary election.[http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/politics/politics_general/258350.html Moon Kook-hyun 'will run again at the 2008 parliamentary election']{{in lang|ko}}, 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=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Election ! Candidate ! Votes ! % ! Result |
| 2007
| 1,375,498 | 5.83 | {{No|Not elected}} |
=Legislature=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! rowspan="2" | Election ! rowspan="2" | Leader ! colspan="4" | Constituency ! colspan="4" | Party list ! colspan="2" | Seats ! rowspan="2" | Position ! rowspan="2" | Status |
| Votes
! % ! Seats ! +/- ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! +/- ! No. ! +/– |
|---|
| 2008
| rowspan="2" | Han Myeon-hee | 72,803 | 0.42 | {{Composition bar|1|245|hex={{party color|Creative Korea Party}}}} | new | 651,993 | 3.81 | {{Composition bar|2|54|hex={{party color|Creative Korea Party}}}} | new | {{Composition bar|3|299|hex={{party color|Creative Korea Party}}}} | new | 6th | {{No2|Opposition}} |
| 2012
| 3,624 | 0.02 | {{Composition bar|0|246}} | {{decrease}} 1 | 91,935 | 0.43 | {{Composition bar|0|54}} | {{decrease}} 2 | {{Composition bar|0|300}} | {{decrease}} 2 | 11th | {{No|Extra-parliamentary}} |