# Creative Korea Party

Creative Korea Party (Korean: 창조한국당; Hanja: 創造韓國黨; RR: Changjohangugdang; CKP) was a political party of South Korea. It was formed out of the Uri Party and its resulting civil splinter groups, with their leader Moon Kook-hyun, a well-known former business leader who recently started his political career. Their 2007 presidential bid was unsuccessful, however, they gained 3 seats at the 2008 general election on April 9, 2008, including the election of Moon Kook-hyun at Eunpyeong-eul, Seoul district; but lost all of these seats in the subsequent 2012 general election. Creative Korea Party deregistered on 26 April 2012.

## Party platform

* Creating a new Social Solidarity
* Establishing a Knowledge and Creativity-based Economy
* Minimizing military tension of Korean Peninsula
* Providing 'Productive Welfare'
* Building a sustainable Social development
* Funding a Substantial Public and Lifelong Education
* Respecting Minority Rights
* Taking responsibility of the Diversity of Cultural References
* Creating Economic Cooperation in Northeast Asia

## Notable members

* Moon Kook-hyun MP, Party Leader, Official Presidential candidate of the party and MP for Eunpyeong-gu 2nd electorate, Seoul
* Lee Yong-kyeong MP, former CEO of KT and Korean National Assembly MP
* Yu Won-il MP, former environmental movement organizer in Siheung, Gyeonggi Province, and Korean National Assembly MP
* Lee Jeong-ja, Chairperson of Green-consumer Network (Civil organization)

## 2007 Election

They held their nominating convention for 2007 presidential election on November 4, 2007. During that event, its leader Moon Kook-hyun was elected with 8,884(94.9%) of the mobile phone vote. As one of the pro-governmental liberal candidates, he and his party suffered the pressure of political simplification from several civil organizational leaders for the entire campaigning period. However, although negotiating with the UNDP politicians a lot, he eventually decided to target voters disappointed with both major parties (the UNDP and GNP) and their candidates(Chung Dong-young and Lee Myung-bak). They hoped to reach somewhat over 10% support, but gained a final result of 1.38 million voters(5.82%) which put them in 4th place. However, they earned more votes than the 10-year-old KDLP's result(3.00%), and gained strong supports (Its average was roughly 8%) from metropolitan city areas, such as Seoul and its suburbs, Incheon, Daejeon, Chuncheon, Jeju, therefore it was judged to be a potential threat to major parties during the 2008 parliamentary election.

## 2012 election

In the 2012 general election, the party received less than .1% of the constituency votes, and .4% of the national votes for proportional representation. It lost all three seats in the parliament. The party was dissolved as a result (The party needs to obtain at least 2% of the national votes in order for it to remain registered).

## Electoral results
### President

| Election | Candidate | Votes | % | Result |
| 2007 | Moon Kook-hyun | 1,375,498 | 5.83 | Not elected |

### Legislature

| Election | Leader | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Party list | Party list | Party list | Party list | Seats | Seats | Position | Status |
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Votes | % | Seats | +/- | No. | +/– | Position | Status |
| 2008 | Han Myeon-hee | 72,803 | 0.42 | 1 / 245 | new | 651,993 | 3.81 | 2 / 54 | new | 3 / 299 | new | 6th | Opposition |
| 2012 | Han Myeon-hee | 3,624 | 0.02 | 0 / 246 | 1 | 91,935 | 0.43 | 0 / 54 | 2 | 0 / 300 | 2 | 11th | Extra-parliamentary |