| Description | Centrist, liberal party and the nation's largest, holding 172 seats in the 21st National Assembly. Party was founded as a union of the dissolved Democratic Party and the New Politics Alliance co-chaired by Kim Han-gil and Ahn Cheol-soo, and renamed the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) on December 28, 2015 under the leadership of South Korea's 19th President Moon Jae-in. [더불어민주당; "deobul-eominjudang"; Party takes some care to avoid legal jeopardy when calling itself the unofficial "Democratic Party," a party which was dissolved on October 19, 2016]. Party suffered a defeat after presidential elections held on March 9, 2022, which forced a mass resignation of party executives, including its leader, Song Young-gil, on March 10, 2022. |
