Progressivism in South Korea

Timeline of all mainstream political parties

Progressivism in South Korea is a broadly associated with socialism, social democracy and democratic socialism.

Progressive parties

Preparatory Committee for National Construction → People's Party of Korea → People's Labor Party (1945-1950)
Workers' Party of South Korea (1946-1953)
Socialist Party (1951-1953)
Progressive Party (1956-1958)
United Socialist Party of Korea (1961 ~ 1967)
Hangyore Democratic Party (1988-1991)
People's Party (1988)
The People's Party (1990-1992)
People's Victory 21 → Democratic Labor Party (1997-2011)
Youth Progressive Party → Socialist Party → Korea Socialist Party → Socialist Party (1998–2012)
New Progressive Party (2008–2012)
Justice Party (2012- )

Peace and Justice (2018)

Labor Party (2013- )
People's United Party (2016-2017)
New People's Party (2017)
Minjung Party (2017- )

Banned parties

Progressive Party (1956-1958)
Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (1969-1985)
National Democratic Front of South Korea (1985-2005)
Unified Progressive Party^[1] (2011-2014)

Major Progressive parties election results of South Korea

Presidential elections

Election	Candidate	Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome	Party Name
1952	Cho Pong-am	797,504	11.4%	Defeated N	Independent
1956	Cho Pong-am	2,163,808	30.0%	Defeated N	Independent

1987	Baik Ki-wan	Quit midway through			Independent
1992	Baik Ki-wan	238,648	1.0%	Defeated N	Independent
1997	Kwon Young-ghil	306,026	1.2%	Defeated N	People's Victory 21
2002	Kwon Young-ghil	957,148	3.9%	Defeated N	Democratic Labor Party
2007	Kwon Young-ghil	712,121	3.0%	Defeated N	Democratic Labor Party
2007	Geum Min	18,223	0.07%	Defeated N	Korea Socialist Party
2012	Lee Jung-hee	Quit midway through			Unified Progressive Party
	Kim So-yeon	16,687	0.05%	Defeated N	Independent
	Kim Soon-ja	46,017	0.15%	Defeated N	Independent
2017	Sim Sang-jung	2,017,458	6.17%	Defeated N	Justice Party
2017	Kim Sun-dong	27,229	0.08%	Defeated N	People's United Party

Legislative elections

Election	Total seats	Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome	Election leader	Party Name
1950	2 / 210	89,413	1.3%	new 2 seats; Minority	Jo So-ang	Socialist Party
1960	4 / 233	541,021	6.0%	new 4 seats; Minority	Seo Sang-il	Social Mass Party
1960	1 / 233	57,965	0.6%	new 1 seats; Minority	Jeon Jin-han	Korea Socialist Party
1967	1 / 175	249,561	2.3%	new 1 seats; Minority	Seo Min-ho	Mass Party
1967	0 / 175	104,975	1.0%	new 0 seats; Minority	Kim Cheol	Unified Socialist Party
1971	0 / 204	59,359	0.5%	1 seats; Minority	Ri Mong	Mass Party
1971	0 / 204	97,398	0.9%	0 seats; Minority	Kim Cheol	Unified Socialist Party

1981	2 / 276	524,361	3.2%	new 2 seats; Minority	Ko Chong-hun	Democratic Socialist Party
1981	0 / 276	122,778	0.7%	new 0 seats; Minority	Kim Cheol	Socialist Party
1985	1 / 276	288,863	1.4%	new 1 seats; Minority	Ko Chong-hun	New Politics Socialist Party
1988	0 / 299	65,650	0.3%	new 0 seats; Minority	Jeong Tae-yun	Party of the people
1988	1 / 299	251,236	1.3%	new 0 seats; Minority	Ye Chun-ho	Hangyore Democratic Party

1992	0 / 229	319,041	1.5%	new 0 seats; Minority	Lee U-jae	People's Party
2000	0 / 273	223,261	1.2%	new 0 seats; Minority	Kwon Young-ghil	Democratic Labor Party
2000	0 / 273	125,082	0.7%	new 0 seats; Minority	Choi Hyeok	Youth Progressive Party
2004	10 / 299	2,774,061	13.0%	10 seats; Minority	Kwon Young-ghil	Democratic Labor Party
2004	0 / 299	47,311	0.22%	0 seats; Minority	Won Yong-su	Socialist Party
2008	5 / 299	973,445	5.68%	5 seats; Minority	Cheon Yeong-se	Democratic Labor Party
	0 / 299	504,466	2.94%	new 0 seats; Minority	Roh Hoe-chan Sim Sang-jung	New Progressive Party
	0 / 299	35,496	0.20%	0 seats; Minority	Choi Gwang-Eun	Korea Socialist Party
2012	13 / 300	2,198,405	10.3%	new 13 seats; Minority	Lee Jung-hee	Unified Progressive Party
2012	0 / 300	243,065	1.13%	0 seats; Minority	Hong Sehwa An Hyo-sang	New Progressive Party
2016	0 / 300	91,705	0.38%	0 seats; Minority	Koo Kyo-hyun	Labor Party
	6 / 300	1,719,891	7.23%	new 6 seats; Minority	Sim Sang-jung	Justice Party
	0 / 300	145,624	0.61%	0 seats; Minority	Lee Gwang-seok	People's United Party

Local elections

Election	Metropolitan Self-government	Metropolitan Council	Local Self-government	Local Council	Party Name
3rd (2002)	0 / 16	11 / 682	2 / 232	N/A	Democratic Labor Party
4th (2006)	0 / 16	15 / 733	0 / 230	66 / 2,888	Democratic Labor Party
5th (2010)	0 / 16	24 / 761	3 / 228	115 / 2,888	Democratic Labor Party
5th (2010)	0 / 16	3 / 761	0 / 228	22 / 2,888	New Progressive Party
6th (2014)	0 / 17	3 / 789	0 / 226	34 / 2,898	Unified Progressive Party
	0 / 17	1 / 789	0 / 226	6 / 2,898	Labor Party
	0 / 17	0 / 789	0 / 226	11 / 2,898	Justice Party

References

↑ Yonhap News Agency, December 19, 2014, , “...South Korea's Constitutional Court on Friday ordered the dissolution of a pro-North Korean minor opposition party...”

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[Yonhap-1] Yonhap News Agency, December 19, 2014, , “...South Korea's Constitutional Court on Friday ordered the dissolution of a pro-North Korean minor opposition party...”