Rebuilding Korea Party

The Rebuilding Korea Party^[3] (RKP; Korean: 조국혁신당; Hanja: 祖國革新黨; lit. Homeland Innovation Party)^[4][5] is a South Korean political party founded by former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk ahead of the 2024 South Korean legislative election. The party opposes what it refers to as "prosecutorial dictatorship" and considers President Yoon Suk-yeol's administration complicit in maintaining it. The party aims to reform and depoliticize South Korea's Public Prosecutor's Office.^[6] The name of the party can be pronounced as 'Cho-kuk Hyuk-sin Dang' in Korean. The word 'Cho-kuk' refers to 'Motherland (Korea)', but also refers to the name of the party founder Cho Kuk. However, the Hanja, which gives Korean words their meanings, is different.

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Rebuilding Korea Party 조국혁신당
Abbreviation	RKP
Leader	Kim Sunmin
Secretary-General	Hwang Hyun-seon
Floor Leader	Hwang Un-ha
Chair of the Policy Planning Committee	Seo Wang-Jin
Founded	3 March 2024 (2024-03-03)
Split from	Democratic Party
Headquarters	93 Jandari-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Membership (2024)	57,000
Ideology	Progressivism (South Korean) Liberalism (South Korean)
Political position	Centre-left
Colors	True Blue (primary)[1]   Cobalt Blue (secondary)   Deep Blue (tertiary)
Slogan	3년은 너무 길다! ('3 Years is Too Long!')[2]
National Assembly	12 / 300
Metropolitan mayors and governors	0 / 17
Municipal mayors	0 / 226
Provincial and metropolitan councillors	0 / 872
Municipal councillors	2 / 2,988
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Website
rebuildingkoreaparty.kr
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Former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk announced on 13 February 2024, that he was planning on establishing a new political party with the aim of fighting against "prosecutorial dictatorship".^[7] He subsequently registered the Cho Kuk New Party (조국신당) as a preparatory party establishment committee with the National Election Commission. After holding a naming contest for the party, its name was changed to the Rebuilding Korea Party on 29 February 2024. The party selected true blue as its primary color.^[8] The party was officially founded on 3 March 2024 at the party's establishment ceremony.^[9]

In the 2024 South Korean legislative election, the RKP won 12 seats, all of which were proportional representation seats (RKP did not stand candidates for the district seats to avoid vote-splitting).^[10] This made RKP the third-largest party in the 300-seat South Korean parliament, after the Democratic Party (DP), which won 175 seats, and People Power Party (PPP), which won 108 seats.^[10]

Following the 2024 self-coup attempt the party's legislators voted in favor of the Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol.

The Rebuilding Korea Party is primarily described as liberal and progressive.^[11][12] It is considered more progressive than the Democratic Party (DP).^[10]

The party's platform sets forth abolishing "prosecutorial dictatorship" in South Korea and bringing an end to President Yoon Suk-yeol's administration as a priority. It aims to reform the Ministry of Economy and Finance and make the National Assembly Budget Office independent from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The party displays economic progressive tendencies, and supports greater government intervention in the economy through environmental and scientific investments, balanced development, and expanding the social safety net. The party seeks to achieve a peaceful relationship of cooperation with North Korea and the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.^[13]