New Choice () was a South Korean political party founded around Keum Tae-sup, who left the Democratic Party of Korea in 2023. On 9 February 2024, the party announced a merger with Lee Jun-seok's Reform Party.제3지대 4개 세력, 합당...당명 '개혁신당' , 대표 이준석·이낙연 Candidates for the New Choice Party ran under the Reform Party banner in the 2024 South Korean legislative election, and the formal merger process was completed after the election.
History In December 2023 Keum Tae-sup, Cho Seong-ju, Ryu Ho-jeong and others from the Third Power group, who were critical of both the Democratic Party and the People Power Party founded the party. Their aim was to create a "third way" political party that included both progressive and conservative reformers. Keum Tae-sup and Cho Seong-ju were elected as co-chairs of the party. Ryu Ho-jeong joined the party but remained in the Justice Party to encourage others to join the new political project and to prevent the loss of her proportional representation seat in the National Assembly. Keum Tae-sup said the party wanted to gain 30 seats in the 2024 South Korean legislative election.
In some party material on YouTube a cartoon character appeared, first in the video titled "탄핵 중독, 치료법이 있다" (Impeachment Addiction: There Is a Cure) and subsequently appeared in later videos too.
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