The Liberty Korea Party (Korean: 자유한국당) was a conservative political party in South Korea that was described variously as right-wing,right-wing populist,or far-right. Until February 2017,it was known as the Saenuri Party,and before that as the Hannara Party from 1997 to 2012,both of which are still colloquially used to refer to the party. The party formerly held a plurality of seats in the 20th Assembly before its ruling status was transferred to the Democratic Party of Korea on 27 December 2016,following the creation of the splinter Bareun Party by former Saenuri members who distanced themselves from President Park Geun-hye in the 2016 South Korean political scandal.
Park Geun-hye is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 to 2017.
Yonhap News TV,stylised as YONHAP NEWS TV,is a South Korean pay television network and broadcasting company,owned by the Yonhap News Agency-led consortium. It began broadcasting on 1 December 2011. Yonhap News TV started broadcasting with four new South Korean nationwide generalist cable TV networks. Those are JoongAng Ilbo's JTBC,Dong-A Ilbo's Channel A,Chosun Ilbo's TV Chosun,and Maeil Kyungje's MBN in 2011. The four new networks supplement existing conventional free-to-air TV networks like KBS,MBC,SBS,and other smaller channels launched following deregulation in 1990.
Kim Du-han,also spelled Kim Doo-han,was a South Korean mobster,anti-communist activist,politician and the son of Kim Chwa-chin. His art name was Uisong.
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.
JTBC is a South Korean nationwide pay television network. Its primary shareholder is JoongAng Holdings,with a 25% stake. It was launched on 1 December 2011. JTBC is a generalist channel,with programming consisting of television series,variety shows,and news broadcasting;its news division is held in similar regard to the three main terrestrial networks in South 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.
Legislative elections were held in South Korea on 13 April 2016. All 300 members of the National Assembly were elected,253 from first-past-the-post constituencies and 47 from proportional party lists. The election was an upset victory for the liberal Democratic Party,which defied opinion polling by winning a plurality of seats in the election and defeating the ruling conservative Saenuri Party by one seat. In votes for party lists,however,Democratic Party came third,behind the Saenuri Party in first place and the new People Party in second.
Kang Chang-hee is a South Korean politician who was the Speaker of the 19th National Assembly of South Korea,succeeding acting Speaker Chung Eui-hwa on 2 July 2012,for a two-year term. Kang was a member of the Saenuri Party,which holds the largest number of seats in the 2012–2016 National Assembly. He was selected as the party candidate for Speaker on 31 May 2012,which effectively guaranteed he would become Speaker. He was officially elected when the National Assembly convened on 2 July 2012,gaining 195 of 283 votes. On assuming the office of Speaker,Kang was legally required,by the National Assembly Act,to become an unaffiliated member of the National Assembly.
Kim Moo-sung is a South Korean politician as a member of the Liberty Korea Party. He was previously the Saenuri Party leader from 2014 to 2016.
Kimchi Cheese Smile is a South Korean sitcom revolving around the life of a kimchi-like family headed by Shin Goo,who are to become in-laws to Sunwoo Eun-sook's cheese-like family. With contrasting classes and values,the sitcom follows these two families through various events in their lives.
The 7.30 by-elections were held in South Korea on 30 July 2014. 15 seats to the National Assembly of South Korea were contested while re-election occurred for 1 seat to the Municipal Council of Suwon.
The People Party was a centrist political party in South Korea established on 2 February 2016 by Ahn Cheol-soo. The party had a strong support base in the Honam region. The party dissolved on 13 February 2018. A later party of the same name was also founded by Ahn and was active from 2020 to 2022.
Chin Young is a South Korean politician in the liberal Democratic Party of Korea,and a former member of the National Assembly representing Yongsan,Seoul. He was formerly a member of the conservative Saenuri Party,and served as the first Minister of Health and Welfare in the Park Geun-hye administration from March to September 2013.
Cheong Yang-seog is a South Korean politician in the conservative People Power Party who was elected member of the National Assembly for Gangbuk,Seoul,in the 2016 parliamentary election. He previously represented the same constituency between 2008 and 2012.
The impeachment of Park Geun-hye,President of South Korea,was the culmination of a political scandal involving interventions to the presidency from her aide,Choi Soon-sil. The impeachment vote took place on 9 December 2016,with 234 members of the 300-member National Assembly voting in favour of the impeachment and temporary suspension of Park Geun-hye's presidential powers and duties. This exceeded the required two-thirds threshold in the National Assembly and,although the vote was by secret ballot,the results indicated that more than half of the 128 lawmakers in Park's party Saenuri had supported her impeachment. Thus,Hwang Kyo-ahn,then Prime Minister of South Korea,became Acting President while the Constitutional Court of Korea was due to determine whether to accept the impeachment. The court upheld the impeachment in a unanimous 8–0 decision on 10 March 2017,removing Park from office. The regularly scheduled presidential election was advanced to 9 May 2017,and Moon Jae-in,former leader of the Democratic Party,was elected as Park's permanent successor.
Saenuri Party is a conservative political party in South Korea,founded by supporters of Park Geun-hye. It opposed her impeachment.
Yongsan is a constituency of the National Assembly of South Korea. The constituency only consists of the Yongsan District,Seoul. As of 2020,203,233 eligible voters were registered in the constituency.
Seongnam Bundang A is a constituency of the National Assembly of South Korea. The constituency consists of portions of Bundang District,Seongnam. As of 2024,214,158 eligible voters were registered in the constituency. The constituency was created in 2000 from the Seongnam Bundang constituency.
Eunpyeong B is a constituency of the National Assembly of South Korea. The constituency consists of parts of Eunpyeong District,Seoul. As of 2024,195,270 eligible voters were registered in the constituency. The constituency was created in 1988 from the Seodaemun–Eunpyeong constituency.
