Bareunmirae Party

[[File:Righteous Future Party Logo.svg|thumb|right|165px|Logo of the Righteous Future Party]]
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{{cquote|[We are a party of] reformist conservatives and rational centrists |||Park Joo-sun, 2018}}
The '''Righteous Future Party''', also known as the '''Bareunmirae Party''' (바른미래당), was a [[South Korean]] centre-right political party,<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/south-korean-conservatives-lined-up-with-trump-and-reaped-electoral-disaster/2018/07/15/dea7d8d2-7efb-11e8-a63f-7b5d2aba7ac5_story.html "For South Korean conservatives, Trump adds to deep political problems". Washington Post.]</ref>{{efn|In South Korean politics, it would be center to center-right, but by Western standards, it would be closer to right-wing on social issues.}} which operated since 2018. It became the second-largest opposition party.
On February 24, 2020, '''{{wpl|Party for People's Liveihoods}}''' was created, integrating the Bareunmirae Party, {{wpl|New Alternative Party (South Korea)|New Alternative Party}} and the [[Party for Democracy and Peace]].

Officially, the Bareunmirae Party was classified as centre to centre-right, but there were conservative factions who expressed negative opinions towards minority [[civil rights movement]], opposed [[affirmative action]], and expressed [[homophobic]] and [[Islamophobic]] tendencies.{{efn|However, it is difficult to generalize them as they also have a stake in the liberal faction.}}

The parties concerned were negative about the enactment of an 'anti-discrimination law'. (There is no anti-discrimination law in South Korea because of 
extremism
 freedom of speech.){{efn|The U.N. has demanded that the South Korean government enact a law against discrimination.}}

The Bareunmirae Party was categorized as left-leaning compared to the [[Liberty Korea Party]] and right-wing compared to the [[Minjoo Party of Korea]].

The main supporters were men in their 20s. The party was pro-Western and pro-[[American]], but less hostile to [[North Korea]] than the [[Liberty Korea Party]], but opposed the [[Sunshine Policy]]. 
The party claimed that men in their 20s are discriminated against, thus expresseed a negative stance on [[feminism]].<ref>[https://www.msn.com/ko-kr/news/national/%ED%95%98%ED%83%9C%EA%B2%BD-%E2%80%9C20%C2%B730%EB%82%A8%EC%84%B1%EC%9D%B4-%EC%B5%9C%EA%B3%A0-%EC%95%BD%EC%9E%90%E2%80%A6%EC%97%AC%EC%84%B1%EC%9A%B0%EB%8C%80-%EB%B2%95%EC%97%90-%EC%9C%A0%ED%86%B5%EA%B8%B0%ED%95%9C-%EB%A7%8C%EB%93%A4-%EA%B2%83%E2%80%9D/ar-BBSCr3l Ha Tae-kyung (the supreme member of the Bareunmirae Party) said, "The social minorities for this era is men in their 20s and 30s … Modifying Women's Affirmative Action"]</ref> However, the party was only sensitive to the issue of reverse discrimination among men in their 20s. The Bareunmirae party was positive about some women's-rights issues, including abortion rights. And the RFP{{cn}} also actively engaged with women's organizations and took a feminist view in areas that did not conflict with the interests of men in their 20s. In addition, {{wpl|Yoo Seong-min}}, one of the former main leaders of the party, made an official statement supporting a major feminist protest.<ref>[http://www.sisaweek.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=109357 바른미래당, 혜화역 시위 지지 논평… “용기 낸 여성들 감사”, SisaWeek.]</ref>

Even though the party was a conservative party, it supported pro-[[LGBT]] movements such as the Queer Parade and the [[Pro-choice| legalization of abortion]] (On this issue, it was rather more progressive than the [[Party for Democracy and Peace]].) and was the only party in South Korea to support [[porn]] legalization.{{efn|In South Korea, producing and/or distributing [[pornography]] is illegal, even though its ownership isn't.}} This party seemed to be [[sex-positivity|sex-positive]].

However, this was a thing of the past, and the "alt-lite" tendency disappeared as conservatives bolted from the party to form a [[Party of New Conservatives |new party]] in December 2019.

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