Wrote on the slightly farcical conservative party renaming with fellow https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ" title="Flagge von Sรผdafrika" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Sรผdafrika"> @SimonVoget https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/south-korean-conservatives-rebrand-again-in-attempted-makeover/">https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/s...
The frequency of party rebranding has been criticised for a long time but it is seemingly still one of the blunter tools at party leadership& #39;s disposal in times of factional realignment, scandal, or electoral defeat. https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/03/22/2012032201724.html">https://www.chosun.com/site/data...
It wasn& #39;t always like this though, the conservatives used to be the stable half of the two-party equation, sticking with their post-IMF-crisis Hannara (US Republican inspired & #39;Grand National Party& #39; in English) name from 1997 until 2012. https://www.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/A2020082609140003519?did=DA">https://www.hankookilbo.com/News/Read...
Saenuri had a run of 5 years, until conservatives desperately needed a post-conservative disassociation with the toxic Park brand in 2017. Scandal/factional realignment = Saenuri -> Korea Liberty Party. A more conventional conservative party name that echoes previous iterations.
Disastrous election results follow anyway, Hwang Kyo-ahn resigns as party leader and economist turned politician Kim Chong-in takes the reins in a power vacuum. To avoid the frustrated powerlessness of previous interim leader Kim Byung-joon, Kim Chong-in secures some guarantees.
Kim Chong-in& #39;s personal history with conservative directional shifts on economic policy is less than convincing. Park Geun-hye pledged to implement & #39;economic democratization& #39; for which Kim was a major advocate, only for such talk to go nowhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMWIAGGN5to">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
The confusion with the English name got to our article too, with a post-submission edit from People& #39;s Power --> People Power Party leaving an errant apostrophe s in there.
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