The Korea Democratic Party (Korean: 한국민주당; Hanja: 韓國民主黨, KDP) was the leading opposition party in the first years of the First Republic of Korea. It existed from 1945 to 1949, when it merged with other opposition parties.
However, its closeness to the American occupation force, together with its association with the landed gentry, meant that it never gained significant popular support.[4] In the May 1948 elections the party won only 29 of the 200 seats, and although it supported Syngman Rhee in the July 1948 presidential elections, none of its members were included in his cabinet, a snub that led to the party joining the opposition.
^Sheldon W. Simon, ed. (2016). East Asian Security in the Post-Cold War Era. Routledge. p. 61. ISBN9781315486604. Widening divisions between Korean political rivals, most notably Kim Il-song's communist North Korean Workers' Party and Syngman Rhee's pro-American Korean Democratic Party (KDP) based in South Korea, complicated the task of managing a ...
^ abcdefHaruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, pp670–671
^Hugh Dyson Walker, ed. (2012). East Asia: A New History. AuthorHouse. p. 610. ISBN9781477265161. ... Now led by members of the Korean Democratic Party, it retained nearly 80% of police who had formerly served under the Japanese. The right-wing outlook of the Korean Democratic Party kept conservative control in politics, the military, ...
