The Democratic Justice Party (DJP; ) was the ruling party of South Korea from 1981 to 1990.
History Chun Doo-hwan had become the country's de facto leader after leading a military coup in December 1979, and was elected president in his own right in August 1980. Two months after taking office, he abolished all political parties, including Park Chung Hee's Democratic Republican Party, which had ruled the country since 1963, and with few viable constraints on its power since Park's self-coup of 1971. A new Constitution, which inaugurated the Fifth Republic, was enacted later in October.
The following January, Chun created the Democratic Justice Party, which garnered the support of most DRP lawmakers and politicians; for all intents and purposes it was the DRP under a new name. He was elected as the first president of the Fifth Republic in 1981. Although the DJP won large majorities at legislative elections in 1981 and 1985 and the system was heavily rigged in its favor, it had far less power than the DRP.
The 1980 Constitution limited the president to a single seven-year term, with no possibility of reelection. Chun announced his retirement in 1987, but resisted all calls to further open up the regime. The situation changed later in 1987, when DJP presidential candidate Roh Tae-woo promised that year's presidential election would be free and democratic. Roh became the first direct elected president under a free and fair election in December 1987. In 1990, the DJP merged with Kim Young-Sam's Reunification Democratic Party and Kim Jong-pil's New Democratic Republican Party to form the Democratic Liberal Party.
Ideologies At its founding convention held on 15 January 1981, the Democratic Justice Party presented five principles as its official founding ideology: nation, democracy, justice, welfare, and peaceful unification.People's Justice Party's National Democratic Party's all-party committee was transferred to the National Assembly, The Dong-A Ilbo, January 15, 1981 The party embraced various ideologies like National conservatism,《100 Years of Korean Language》, Federation of Korean Reporters (until 1987), 2006, p. 176 State-led developmentalism, Market liberalism,박정희 정권의 국가자본주의에서 탈피하는 시장경제적인 개혁이 일부 이뤄졌었다. Neoliberalism,Kim, Byung-kook (2008), “Defeat in victory, victory in defeat: the Korean conservatives in democratic consolidation,” Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to lose (Routledge): 170 . Economic liberalization, Anti-communism,Kim, Byung-kook (2008), “Defeat in victory, victory in defeat: the Korean conservatives in democratic consolidation”, Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to lose (Routledge): 170 Social justice and Authoritarianism .Kim, Byung-kook (2008), “Defeat in victory, victory in defeat: the Korean conservatives in democratic consolidation”, 《Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to lose》 (Routledge), page 170
Election results President Election Candidate Votes % Result 1981 Chun Doo-hwan 4,755 90.23 1987 Roh Tae-woo 8,282,738 36.64
Legislature Election Leader Votes % Seats Position Status Constituency Party list Total +/– 1981 Chun Doo-hwan 5,776,624 35.64 new 1st 1985 7,040,811 35.25 3 1988 Roh Tae-woo 6,675,494 33.96 23
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