Transition Korea

Transition Korea (TK; Korean: 시대전환; Hanja: 時代轉換; RR: Sidae jeonhwan) was an anti-establishment^[2][3][4] political party in South Korea.

Transition Korea 시대전환 時代轉換
Leader	Cho Jung-hun
Secretary-General	Lee Jae-hoo
Floor Leader	Cho Jung-hun
Chair of the Policy Planning Committee	Park Sook-hyun
Founded	23 February 2020
Registered	6 March 2020
Dissolved	9 November 2023
Split from	Democratic Party
Merged into	People Power Party
Headquarters	Gukhoe-daero, Yeongdeungpo, Seoul
Ideology	Pragmatism[1] Anti-establishment[2]
Political position	Centre[1]
National affiliation	Platform Party (until 2020)
Colours	Purple
Website
www.transition.kr/home/
Politics of South Korea Political parties Elections

The party was established by Cho Jung-hoon and Lee Won-jae on 23 February 2020.^[4][5] It officially identifies as neither conservative nor progressive, but as pragmatic.^[6] Lee Won-jae, one of the co-Presidents, supports a basic income.^[6]

In the 2020 election, the party joined the Platform Party alliance,^[7] but at the beginning there were speculations that the party would form an alliance with the Minsaeng Party.^[3] Cho Jung-hoon ran 6th in the Platform Party list^[7] and was elected. On 12 May 2020, Cho was officially expelled from the Platform Party and returned to this party.^[8]

On 9 November 2023, Party leader Cho agreed to a merger of the Party with the conservative People Power ahead of the 2024 South Korean legislative election.^[9]