United Liberal Democrats

The United Liberal Democrats (ULD; Korean: 자유민주연합; lit. 'Liberal Democratic Union') was a right-wing^[1][2] conservative^[3] political party in South Korea, whose support mostly came from the North Chungcheong Province and South Chungcheong Province regions. The short Korean name is Jaminryeon (Korean: 자민련, lit. 'Liberal Union'; ULD).

United Liberal Democrats 자유민주연합
Abbreviation	ULD
Founder	Kim Jong-pil
Founded	March 30, 1995
Dissolved	April 7, 2006
Merger of	New Democratic
Split from	New Korea
Headquarters	Seoul, South Korea
Ideology	Conservatism (South Korean) Chungcheong regionalism
Political position	Right-wing
Colors	Green
Party flag
Politics of South Korea Political parties Elections

United Liberal Democrats
Hangul	자유민주연합
Hanja	自由民主聯合
RR	Jayu minju yeonhap
MR	Chayu minju yŏnhap

The Party was in a government coalition with Kim Dae-jung's Democratic Party from 1998 to 2001.

In the 2004 parliamentary election, it gained only 4 seats in the National Assembly, and its president Kim Jong-pil announced his retirement from politics after his bid for the 10th term in the National Assembly failed. Subsequently, most lawmakers from the party chose to defect from the party to form a new party, People First Party.

Election results

Legislature

Election	Leader	Constituency				Party list				Seats		Position	Status
		Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	No.	+/–
1996	Kim Jong-pil	3,178,474	16.17	41 / 253	new			9 / 46	new	50 / 299	new	3rd	Governing coalition
2000		1,859,331	9.84	12 / 227	29			5 / 46	4	17 / 273	33		Opposition
2004		569,083	2.67	4 / 243	8	600,462	2.82	0 / 56	5	4 / 299	13	5th	Opposition

Local

Election	Leader	Metropolitan mayor/Governor	Provincial legislature	Municipal mayor
1995	Kim Jong-pil	3 / 15	94 / 875	23 / 230