United Liberal Democrats

{{Short description|1995–2006 political party in South Korea}}

{{Infobox political party

| logo = Logo of the United Liberal Democrats South Korea.svg

| colorcode = {{party color|United Liberal Democrats}}

| abbreviation = ULD

| ideology = {{ublist|class = nowrap

| Conservatism (South Korean)

| Chungcheong regionalism

}}

| headquarters = Seoul, South Korea

| country = South Korea

| native_name = 자유민주연합

| founder = Kim Jong-pil

| founded = March 30, 1995

| dissolved = April 7, 2006

| split = New Korea

| merger = New Democratic

| position = Right-wing

| colors = {{color box|{{party color|United Liberal Democrats}}}} Green

| flag = Flag of the United Liberal Democrats South Korea.svg

}}

{{Infobox Korean name/auto

| hangul = ^자유_민주_연합

| hanja = 自由民主聯合

}}

{{Conservatism in South Korea|Parties2}}

The United Liberal Democrats (ULD; {{Korean/auto|^자유_민주_연합|lit=Liberal Democratic Union}}) was a right-wing{{Citation |first=Christoph |last=Bluth |title=Korea |publisher=Polity |year=2008 |page=104 |isbn=9780745633572 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aC572uWCAkAC&q=%22united+liberal+democrats%22+korea+right&pg=PA104}}{{Citation |first=Geir |last=Helgesen |title=Imported democracy: The South Korean experience |work=Globalization and Democratization in Asia |publisher=Routledge |year=2002 |page=90 |isbn=9780415277303 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L3rg5Citz8EC&q=%22united+liberal+democrats%22+korea+right+wing&pg=PA90}} conservative{{Citation |first=Christoph |last=Bluth |title=Crisis on the Korean Peninsula |publisher=Potomac Books |year=2011 |page=89 |isbn=9781574888874 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Da4NeG2vpXIC&q=%22united+liberal+democrats%22+korea+conservative&pg=PA89}} political party in South Korea, whose support mostly came from the North Chungcheong Province and South Chungcheong Province regions. The short Korean name is Jaminryeon ({{langx|ko|자민련||Liberal Union}}; ULD).

The Party was in a government coalition with Kim Dae-jung's Democratic Party from 1998 to 2001.

In the 2004 parliamentary election, it gained only 4 seats in the National Assembly, and its president Kim Jong-pil announced his retirement from politics after his bid for the 10th term in the National Assembly failed. Subsequently, most lawmakers from the party chose to defect from the party to form a new party, People First Party.