The Democratic Alliance of Korea () was an electoral alliance and political party formed in order to run for party-list proportional representation in the 2024 South Korean legislative election. It consisted of 3 centrist to left-wing parties and alliances — the Democratic Party of Korea, the Progressive Party and the New Progressive Alliance. It only nominated proportional representation candidates in the 2024 South Korean election. On May 2, 2024, the Democratic Alliance, excluding members of the Progressive Party and New Progressive Alliance, merged into the Democratic Party of Korea.
Member parties NameIdeologyPositionLeaderMPsEntryPartyDemocratic PartyLiberalismCentre to centre-leftLee Jae-myung3 March 2024Progressive PartyLeft-wing to far-leftYun Hee-suk3 March 2024New Progressive Alliance•Basic Income Party•Open Democratic Party•Social Democratic PartyN/AYong Hye-inOh Joon-ho3 March 2024
Refused to join Despite receiving an invitation from the Democratic Party, the Green Justice Party declined to participate in the electoral alliance due to their stance against the formation of satellite parties. NameIdeologyPositionLeadersMPsReferencesPartyGreen Justice Party•Justice Party•Green Party KoreaCentre-left to left-wingKim Joon-wooKim Chan-hwee
Candidates List number Candidates Endorser party 1 Seo Mi-hwa United Political Citizens Assembly 2 Wi Sung-rak Democratic Party 3 Baek Seung-a Democratic Party 4 Lim Gwang-hyeon Democratic Party 5 Jeong Hye-kyung Progressive Party 6 Yong Hye-in New Progressive Alliance (Basic Income Party) 7 Oh Se-hee Democratic Party 8 Park Hong-bae Democratic Party 9 Kang You-jung Democratic Party 10 Han Chang-min New Progressive Alliance (Social Democratic Party) 11 Jeon Jong-deok Progressive Party 12 Kim Yoon United Political Citizens Assembly 13 Lim Mi-ae Democratic Party 14 Jeong Eul-ho Democratic Party 15 Son Sol Progressive Party 16 Choi Hyuk-jin New Progressive Alliance 17 Lee Ju-hee United Political Citizens Assembly 18 Kim Jun-hwan Democratic Party 19 Go Jae-soon Democratic Party 20 Kim Young-hun United Political Citizens Assembly 21 Kwak Eun-mi Democratic Party 22 Cho Won-hee Democratic Party 23 Baek Hye-sook Democratic Party 24 Seo Seoung-man Democratic Party 25 Jeon Ye-hyun Democratic Party 26 Seo Jae-heon Democratic Party 27 Heo So-young Democratic Party 28 Chpi Young-seung Democratic Party 29 Kang Gyeong-yoon Democratic Party 30 Song Chang-wook Democratic Party
Criticism The inclusion of the Progressive Party was heavily criticised, as it is considered de facto successor of the Unified Progressive Party (UPP) that was banned for its pro-North Korean allegiance despite its denial to the claims. Han Dong-hoon, the interim President of the People Power Party (PPP), denounced the coalition as "the combination of the privileged (socialist) activists, radical supporters of Lee Jae-myung, pro-North Korean UPPs and Cho Kuk". Several pre-candidates, including Lee Rae-kyung and Cho Sung-woo, were alleged to be conspiracy theorists.
Lee Sang-heon, the MP for Buk, Ulsan, announced his withdrawal from the Democratic Party following the Democratic Alliance's decision to support for Yoon Jong-oh, a member of the Progressive Party as well as the former MP for the constituency.
On 14 February 2024, the Democratic Alliance rejected the nomination of Lim Tae-hoon, former chair and founder of the Military Human Rights Commission, for a spot on the proportional representation list. The reason given by the Democratic Party was that Lim had been arrested in the early 2000s for evading military conscription, which is required by law for all men in South Korea. Lim, who is openly gay, would also have been the Democratic Party's first sexual minority in a national election. Some members of the Democratic Party hold social conservative opinions. The Democratic Party also rejected an appeal from Lim, despite conscientious objection being legalized in 2018. Lim was pardoned by President Roh in 2005 and thus founded the Military Human Rights Commission in 2009.
Hours after the announcement of the rejection of candidate Lim, the civil society and human rights groups within the electoral alliance threatened to withdraw their support and candidates from the electoral alliance on 14 February 2024.
Election results ElectionLeaderConstituencyParty listSeatsPositionStatusVotes %SeatsVotes %Seats2024Yoon Young-deokPaik Seung-ah7,567,45926.702nd
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