New Progressive Party 진보신당 Jinbo Shin-dang President Roh Hoe-chan Secretary general Lee Sung-hwa Assembly leader Cho Seung-soo Founded March 2008 (2008-03) Headquarters Daeha Building, 14-11 Yoido-dong, Youngdungpo-gu, Seoul Ideology Democratic socialism, Social democracy, Progressivism, Green politics, Feminism International affiliation None Official colours Red, Green Seats in the National Assembly Website www.newjinbo.org Politics of South Korea Political parties Elections

Korean name Hangul 진보신당 Hanja 進步新黨 Revised Romanization Jinbo Shin-dang McCune–Reischauer Jinbo Shin-dang

New Progressive Party (NPP) is a left wing political party in South Korea. New Progressive party was established by a number of Democratic Labour Party members (known as 'People's Democracy Faction) who left the party in reaction to the dominating Korean nationalist faction.

Current party president is Roh Hoe-chan, elected at the 2004 Parliamentary election as a member of the Democratic Labour Party, however not elected again.

NPP failed to take seats in the National Assembly in 2008 general election. At that time, Roh Hoe-chan was expected to win a seat, because he was winning in most of the pre-vote surveys.

NPP looked to take seat at 29 April 2009 by-election. Ulsan Buk-gu was the one of expected to win the seat because of many labour workers live in that area. NPP nominated Cho Seung-soo, former AM in Ulsan Buk-gu, 2005. NPP was negotiating with DLP (Democratic Labour Party) to nominate the Progressive sole candidate before the by-election starts. NPP and DLP finally negotiated the sole candidate and the result was the Cho became the Progressive sole candidate against conservative candidates. In 29 April by-election, Cho beat GNP (Grand National Party) candidate and finally NPP took the one seat.

[edit] See also

• Politics of South Korea
• List of political parties in South Korea
• List of Korea-related topics
• Gay rights in South Korea

[edit] External links

• Official website (Korean)

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