The history of South Korea begins with the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945. At that time,South Korea and North Korea were divided,despite being the same people and on the same peninsula. In 1950,the Korean War broke out. North Korea overran South Korea until US-led UN forces intervened. At the end of the war in 1953,the border between South and North remained largely similar. Tensions between the two sides continued. South Korea alternated between dictatorship and liberal democracy.It underwent substantial economic development.
The Democratic Party was a political party in South Korea. Formerly named Millennium Democratic Party,it was renamed on 6 May 2005. After its dissolution,its members joined the Uri Party or the successor Democratic Party.
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 19 December 2002. The result was a victory for Roh Moo-Hyun of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party,who defeated Lee Hoi-chang of the Grand National Party by just over half a million votes.
Kim Geun-tae was a democracy activist and politician of the Republic of Korea.
Kim Kyoung-soo is a South Korean politician who served as a member of the National Assembly of South Korea from 2016 to 2018,and as Governor of South Gyeongsang Province from 2018 to 2021,until he was convicted and arrested for opinion rigging.
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 16 December 1987. They marked the establishment of the Sixth Republic,as well as the end of the authoritarian rule that had prevailed in the country for all but one year since its founding in 1948. They were the first direct presidential elections since 1971,as presidents had been indirectly elected by an electoral college dominated by the governing party in the intervening period.
Roh Moo-hyun was a South Korean politician and lawyer who served as the ninth president of South Korea between 2003 and 2008.
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 19 December 2012. They were the sixth presidential elections since democratization and the establishment of the Sixth Republic,and were held under a first-past-the-post system,in which there was a single round of voting and the candidate receiving the highest number of votes was elected. Under the South Korean constitution,a president is restricted to a single five-year term in office. The term of the then incumbent president Lee Myung-bak ended on 24 February 2013. According to the Korea Times,30.7 million people voted with turnout at 75.8%. Park Geun-hye of the Saenuri party was elected the first female South Korean president with 51.6% of the vote opposed to 48.0% for her opponent Moon Jae-in. Park's share of the vote was the highest won by any candidate since the beginning of free and fair direct elections in 1987 and the first such election in which any candidate won a majority. Moreover,as of the 2022 election,this is the latest South Korean presidential election in which the winning candidate won an absolute majority of the vote.
Moon Jae-in is a South Korean politician who served as the 12th president of South Korea from 2017 to 2022. Prior to his presidency,he served as Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs and Chief of Staff to President Roh Moo-hyun,Member of the National Assembly,and Leader of the Democratic Party of Korea.
Early presidential elections were held in South Korea on 9 May 2017 following the impeachment and removal of Park Geun-hye. The elections were conducted in a single round,on a first-past-the-post basis,and had originally been scheduled for 20 December 2017. However,they were brought forward after the decision of the Constitutional Court on 10 March 2017 to uphold the National Assembly's impeachment of Park. Following procedures set out in the Constitution of South Korea,Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn succeeded Park as the acting president. After Park was removed from office by the Constitutional Court's ruling,acting president Hwang announced he would not run for a term in his own right.
The Democratic Party,formerly known as the New Politics Alliance for Democracy,is a centrist-liberal South Korean political party. The DPK and its rival,the People Power Party (PPP),form the two major political parties of South Korea.
Lee In-je is a South Korean politician and a former judge.
Chun Jung-bae is a South Korean politician who was the joint chairman of the People's Party,alongside Ahn Cheol-soo. He is a member of the National Assembly for Seo District,Gwangju since 2015,having previously represented Ansan from 1996 to 2012. He served as Minister of Justice from 2005 to 2006 under President Roh Moo-hyun.
Lee Ki-taek was a South Korean politician and parliamentarian.
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 9 March 2022. Under the South Korean constitution,presidents are restricted to a single five-year term,meaning that incumbent president Moon Jae-in was ineligible to run for a second term. Opposition candidate Yoon Suk Yeol of the People Power Party won the election,defeating candidate Lee Jae-myung of the incumbent Democratic Party.
Kim Jong-min is a South Korean politician representing the constituency of Nonsan–Gyeryong–Geumsan in the National Assembly from 2016.
Cho Kwang-han is a South Korean politician serving as Mayor of Namyangju in Gyeonggi Province from 2018.
Jeon Hae-cheol is a South Korean lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of the Interior and Safety from 2020 to 2022. He formerly served as the Senior Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs from 2006 to 2007,under the then President Roh Moo-hyun.
Hwang Hee is a South Korean politician who formerly served as the Minister of Culture,Sports and Tourism under President Moon Jae-in from 2021 to 2022 and a member of the National Assembly from Yangcheon District of Seoul from 2016.
Kwak Sang-eon is a South Korean politician and lawyer serving as a member of the National Assembly. He is known as the son-in-law of former President Roh Moo-hyun.
