New Democratic Party (South Korea)

New Democratic Party 신민당
Former South Korean Party
Leader	Yu Jin-oh
Founded	1967
Dissolved	1980
Preceded by	None
Merged into	banned by military junta of Chuan Doo-kwan
Headquarters	Seoul
Newspaper	None
Ideology	Liberalism, Moderate conservatism, Democratization
International affiliation	None
Colours	Red and Green
Politics of South Korea Political parties Elections

The New Democratic Party of Korea (Korean: 신민당, hanja: 新民黨; NDP) was a South Korean opposition party that existed from 1963 to 1980, when it was forcibly dissolved by the ninth amendment of the constitution promulgated by Chun Doo-hwan the same year. It was the main opposition party during the Park Chung-hee dictatorial regime, and especially since 1972, when the Yushin constitution was put into effect.

In September 1969, the regime amended the Constitution to allow the incumbent president Park Chung-hee run for a third reelection. The opposition had no consensus on that issue, so some representatives voted yea on that and others did the opposite. This caused an internal party crisis that resulted in the dissolution of the party and the presentation of a communique showing the opinion on the issue.

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