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	Grand National Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grand National Party (Korean hangul:한나라당; hanja:한나라黨; revised: Hannara-dang; McCune-Reischauer: Hannara-dang) is a conservative, right-wing political party in South Korea.
		It was renamed the New Korea Party in 1994 and then the Grand National Party in 1998.
		The party is considered to bear the legacy of traditional ruling elite of South Korea including military regimes, most coming from the Gyeongsang region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_National_Party (438 words)

	Park Geun Hye's Profile
		Park Geun Hye, Chairperson of the Grand National Party(GNP), entered politics with the objective of reforming the party system and the overall political environment and ultimately building a stronger nation.
		Park has been Chairperson of the GNP since March 23, 2004, when during the 6th GNP National Convention, she was elected in a landslide victory in which she won a majority in the first round of voting.
		She was reelected to the National Assembly in the April 13 general elections in 2000.
	www.koreasociety.org /EVENTS/Corporate/2005_03_18_park_geun_hye.html (396 words)

	Opposition offers Roh escape ... - Mar. 11, 2004
		Opposition Grand National Party (GNP) floor leader Hong Sa-Deok indicated that a vote could come during a National Assembly plenary session scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
		"If President Roh Moo-Hyun apologizes at the press conference, the Grand National Party could drop the vote to impeach," said senior GNP official Seo Yong-Gyo.
		Analysts say the conservative GNP, which holds a 144-seat majority of seats in the 270-member National Assembly, and the MDP are unlikely to summon the two third majority needed to unseat Roh if the impeachment drive comes to a vote.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2004/mar/11/text/wnw_1-1-p.htm (549 words)

	S.Korea's ruling party leaders step down after loss - Boston.com
		The conservative Grand National Party swept all four seats in Wednesday's polls, including one described by media as a proxy battle between Roh and main opposition leader Park Geun-hye, who is seen as a possible candidate in the 2007 presidential vote.
		The Uri candidate was a close confidant of Roh, while the Grand National Party candidate who won was Park's secretary.
		The Uri Party is still the largest in South Korea's 299-seat unicameral National Assembly with 144 seats.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/10/28/skoreas_ruling_party_leaders_step_down_after_loss (408 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: South Korea
		The country's first ever impeachment bill was sponsored by the opposition Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) and the Grand National Party (GNP) on the grounds that Roh had violated his constitutional neutrality by a statement in February encouraging people to vote for the Uri Party in legislative elections scheduled for 15 April.
		After the April 2000 elections, President Kim Dae Jung's Millennium Democratic (MDP) party (42% of the seats) remained second to the Grand National (GNP) party (49%); 2002 by-elections increased the GNP share to a legislative majority, further constraining the power of newly elected President Roh Moo Hyun of the MDP.
		South Korea's longtime dissident Kim Dae Jung won the December 1997 presidential election on behalf of the National Congress for New Politics (subsequently renamed the Millennium Democratic Party, MDP) marking the first-ever shift of political power to the opposition from the ruling parties in the nation's history.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Rok1.htm (739 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Korean Vote Shifts Power in Assembly
		However, the defeat of the Grand National Party -- now headed by Park Geun Hye, 52, the daughter of Park Chung Hee -- was not as severe as some had predicted.
		The Grand National Party impeached Roh for committing an electoral infraction and for allegedly being unfit to rule following corruption scandals that brought down several of his top aides.
		SEOUL, April 16 -- In the sharpest political shift in four decades, South Korean voters on Thursday handed control of the National Assembly to the Uri Party, which advocates rapprochement with North Korea and greater independence from the United States.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A16061-2004Apr15?language=printer (946 words)

	People's Weekly World - S. Korean voters deal rebuff to rightists
		The Grand National Party (GNP), which previously controlled the parliament, is the organization most closely connected to the military dictatorship that ruled South Korea until the 1980s.
		The GNP was down to 121 seats, and the centrist Millennium Democratic Party, Roh’s former party and formerly second largest bloc in parliament, dropped to only nine seats.
		However, after April 15, Roh’s left-of-center Uri Party tripled its size to 152 seats — an absolute majority of the 299-member parliament.
	www.pww.org /article/articleprint/5136 (567 words)

	Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
		The opposition party seems overjoyed, claiming, "We've made the law virtually impotent by easing some of the ruling party version's more noxious articles," but in fact, those articles were mostly hard to execute, unconstitutional, or ineffective, so one gets the feeling the ruling party simply threw them in there as subjects of compromise.
		In their negotiations with the ruling party, the GNP viewed the newspaper bill as the easiest to compromise on, dangling it as bait.
		Gov't, ruling party treat critical papers as criminals
	english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200501/200501120011.html (817 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Grand National Steeplechase
		Grand National Steeplechase, classic English steeplechasing event, held toward the end of March every year at the Aintree track near Liverpool....
		Grand National Steeplechase: illustration of Grand National course
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Grand National Steeplechase
	encarta.msn.com /Grand_National_Steeplechase.html (155 words)

	Attacks on the Press 2004: Asia
		Demonstrations and the fierce objections of the Grand National Party stymied the repeal effort; conservatives argued that the law is necessary to maintain security safeguards against North Korea.
		The unpopular impeachment apparently backfired on the opposition Grand National and Millennium Democratic parties; the pro-Roh Uri Party won a majority in April's National Assembly elections.
		In October, the Uri Party proposed a media-reform bill that appeared to be a head-on attack against its ideological opponents in the conservative newspapers.
	www.cpj.org /attacks04/asia04/south_korea.html (1588 words)

	Japan Policy & Politics: 3RD LD: Pro-gov't Uri Party heading to victory in S. Korea polls
		With 72.4% of votes counted, Uri Party candidates were leading in 129 directly contested electoral districts, while candidates from the main opposition Grand National Party were in front in 102 other districts, KBS said.
		In the election to fill a new 299-member National Assembly, the Uri Party is projected to win 152 seats, two seats more than the simple majority of 150, including seats allocated under the proportional representation system, while the Grand National Party is on track to get 124 seats, KBS said.
		For the Grand National Party and the Millennium Democratic Party, the unpopular impeachment vote backfired with many potential voters in the general election.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2004_April_19/ai_115506579 (746 words)

	Welcome To Korea Now !!!-Politics & Policy
		The Grand National Party (GNP) candidate also pledged to contribute all his personal properties to the state, if elected, for use for the underprivileged and needy working-class people.
		To sway around 20 percent of undecided voters believed to hold the key to victory, the two front-runners - Lee Hoi-chang of the majority Grand National Party (GNP) and Roh Moo-hyun of the pro-government Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) - announced a set of surprise campaign pledges.
		Roh proposed an amendment to the Constitution at the end of the 17th National Assembly to be inaugurated after the general election in 2004.
	kn.koreaherald.co.kr /SITE/data/html_dir/2002/12/14/200212140004.asp (753 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from Korea; North and South
		The OOP decimated the MDP, the party of former president Kim Dae-jung, the party that gave rise to the OOP six months ago, securing almost all the seats in the MDP's former regional stronghold of Cholla province.
		The election was not without its illegalities, however, and the National Election Commission reported more than 5,938 cases of illegal pre-election campaigning, almost 50 percent of which was distributing pamphlets, making phone calls or sending e-mails in violation of election laws.
		In short, though the nation's conservatives went to great lengths to portray the OOP as dangerous, radical supporters of the North's Dear Leader Kim Jong-il, the election of the OOP - and its implications for restoration of President Roh and the continuation of his policies - will probably not mean radical vacillations in policy.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/FD17Dg01.html (1294 words)

	AsiaSource: AsiaTODAY - A resource of the Asia Society
		Four main parties were in the running, but the election came down to a tight race between the ruling Millennium Democratic Party and the largest opposition party, the Grand National Party.
		Vote-counting for the National Assembly elections finished in South Korea with the opposition Grand National Party securing 133 seats, while President Kim Dae Jung's ruling party finished with 115 seats in a 273-seat parliament.
		This Reuters articles looks at the slim chances of President Kim's ruling party to win a majority in the parliament because of long-standing regional and political loyalties.
	www.asiasource.org /news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=16934 (1009 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / South Korea Starts Voting in Parliamentary Election
		There is little to choose between the economic policies of the main parties, although foreign investors and Grand National Party leader Park Geun-hye are concerned the Uri Party might indulge militant labor and pursue a radical agenda if it secured a majority in parliament.
		But the pro-Roh Uri Party has said the race with the conservative Grand National Party is too close to call.
		Parliament impeached Roh on March 12 for violating an election law by speaking in favor of the Uri Party.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/04/14/skorean_parties_make_last_pitches_ahead_of_polls?mode=PF (588 words)

	Khaleej Times Online
		The Grand National Party dominated the outgoing parliament, which impeached President Roh Moo-hyun on March 12 and triggered a groundswell of sympathy that lifted the Uri Party in opinion polls.
		Also backfiring for Park’s party was an attack on fundraising violations by Roh aides that sparked a probe in which the Grand National Party was found to have taken far more illegal cash.
		On April 15 -- declared a national holiday -- the country’s 35.6 million voters will cast two votes, one for individual candidates in 243 first-past-the-post districts and one for the 56 seats decided by proportional representation on party lines.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2004/April/theworld_April233.xml§ion=theworld (632 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Asia
		Support for the Grand Nationals, which plummeted after impeachment, may have been helped by their decision to pick Park Geun Hye, the daughter of a popular former president, to lead the party.
		It had 49 seats in the National Assembly going into today's election, compared with 137 held by Grand Nationals and 61 by the Millennium Democrats.
		Grand National politicians, who have controlled the National Assembly for 25 of the last 30 years, are conservatives in South Korean politics.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aBzkQKVLWCAk&refer=asia (1259 words)

	South Korea's ruling party splits up - Sept. 20, 2003
		The new party will be the third largest political group within parliament, which is controlled by the conservative opposition Grand National Party which has 149 of the 272 seats.
		Calls for a new party grew louder after the MDP suffered a crushing defeat to the opposition party in the aftermath of a series of financial scandals involving MDP lawmakers.
		He said his party would focus on removing corruption and ending money-centered politics by introducing a new law on political funding while expanding chances for ordinary voters to take part in selecting presidential candidates.
	www.inq7.net /brk/2003/sep/20/brkafp_3-1.htm (446 words)

	South Korean voters avenge impeached president in momentous liberal shift
		The Uri Party, which had only 49 seats in the outgoing assembly, seized 152, a slim majority in the 299-seat chamber, the National Election Commission confirmed Friday.
		The party, backed largely by labor unions that have been the most vociferous critics of plans to send the troops, won 10 seats, becoming the No. 3 parliamentary group.
		The National Election Commission estimated a 60.6 percent voter turnout, up from the previous election's 57.2 percent.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/04/15/international1308EDT0577.DTL&type=printable (800 words)

	National Democratic Front of South Korea: Our Comrades In the Struggle
		The National Democratic Front of South Korea, is a party of the south Korean patriotic masses which deeply admire COMRADE KIM IL SUNG, and COMRADE KIM JONG IL, founders of the Juche Idea and Songun Politics, respectively.
		The National Democratic Front of South Korea, is the Vanguard of the south Korean Revolution to smash and destroy forever the world-wide hated U.S. Imperialist Occupation, and allow for the Peaceful re-unifcation of the 70 million strong Korean nation along the universally accepted June 15th accords.
		The "thunder" of national cooperation is neither biased in favor of ideology nor factiously prejudiced in favor of a special faction.
	www.geocities.com /songunpoliticsstudygroup/ndfsk.html (9468 words)

	2259_E.htm
		Three opposition parties, the conservative Grand National Party (GNP), the former ruling Millennium Democratic Party and the rightwing United Liberal Democrats, pushed the impeachment vote in the National Assembly to oust the reformist President, on charges of election law violations, incompetence and corruption.
		The Progressive Democratic Labour Party made its debut with 10 seats, in a sharp contrast with the Millennium Democratic Party, which was reduced to a minor party with a mere 9 seats.
		This party is a breakaway group of the former ruling Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), to which Mr Roh had belonged before resigning in September 2003.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2259_E.htm (646 words)

	BBC News ASIA-PACIFIC Election weakens South Korean leader
		The opposition Grand National Party increased its number of seats to 133 from 122, but was four seats short of an outright majority in the 273-seat National Assembly.
		The party is thought to have benefited from Monday's announcement that Mr Kim would meet North Korea's leader in Pyongyang in June - the first such talks since Korea was divided in 1945.
		South Korea's ruling party faces a struggle to form a new coalition after election gains made by the opposition.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/asia-pacific/713167.stm (427 words)

	BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific New prime minister in South Korea
		His appointment must be ratified by the National Assembly.
		However President Kim's Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) welcomed the appointment.
		"President Kim Dae-jung went against the opinion of the opposition party and the people by appointing Mr Chang acting prime minister," said GNP Spokesman Nam Kyong-phil.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/asia-pacific/2182126.stm (519 words)

	AsiaMedia :: KOREA: GNP Calls for Assembly Probe Into Spy Story
		The opposition Grand National Party (GNP) on Friday demanded a parliamentary investigation be launched into the alleged spy case of Rep. Lee Chul-woo of the ruling Uri Party.
		Uri Party officials also decided to take legal measures against a right-wing weekly magazine, which was cited by the three lawmakers as supporting evidence for their argument, while seeking their expulsion from the National Assembly by filing the case before the parliamentary ethics committee.
		The GNP’s bombshell came as the Uri Party is trying to annul the anti-communist National Security Law.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=18397 (729 words)

	Grand National -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Grand Coulee Dam is the main component of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project, a vast irrigation, flood control, and recreation project in central Washington State.
		Designated a national historic site in 1951 and a national monument in 1958, it has an area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 square km).
		The race was instituted in 1839 by William Lynn, a Liverpool innkeeper, and its present name was adopted in 1847.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037680 (889 words)

	N Korea criticises South opposition on impeachment. 14/03/2004. ABC News Online
		The Grand National Party, the largest party in the National Assembly, voted with the smaller Opposition Millennium Democratic Party on Friday to impeach Mr Roh for breaking an election law.
		That was a reference to protests and an opinion poll backlash against the Grand National Party for voting on impeachment.
		"The Grand National Party of South Korea is now finding itself in a sorry plight though it was upbeat until some time back, perpetrating all sorts of arbitrary and high-handed practices, taking advantage of its dominance of the National Assembly," the newspaper said.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/s1065659.htm (354 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Liberals to Make Big Gains in S. Korea Election
		According to South Korean media projections based on ballot counting, the Uri Party was poised to more than triple its representation in the 299-seat National Assembly to at least 150 seats, taking majority control away from the establishment-dominated Grand National Party, which won an estimated 103 seats.
		The Grand National Party had impeached Roh for committing an electoral infraction and allegedly being unfit to rule following a series of corruption scandals that brought down his top aides.
		While the Uri Party has been targeted in corruption probes, Roh has also been seen by many analysts to be stepping out of the way of prosecutors, granting them a new measure of autonomy to pursue political transparency and break the traditional ties between politicians and large South Korean business conglomerates.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A14444-2004Apr15?language=printer (542 words)

	ROK and Inter-Korean relations March 2004
		Park Geun-hye, the newly-elected chairman of the Grand National Party, has long said that she would not walk in the shadow of her father, President Park Chung Hee, who was assassinated in 1979 after ruling South Korea with an iron grip for 18 years.
		Song was indicted on the charges of violating National Security Law by joining the North's ruling party and working to spread the communist ideology, as well as visiting the country 22 times from 1973 until last year for Kim's funeral and academic meetings.
		National cooperation is the major way for building a structure of confrontation between the Korean nation and the U.S. by practical actions.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /~caplabtb/dprk/SK_0403.htm (5487 words)

	BBC News ASIA-PACIFIC Korean opposition still against new PM
		The Grand National Party has said that unless the prime minister voluntarily withdraws, it will file a petition with the constitutional court to suspend him from office.
		The opposition Grand National Party in South Korea has repeated its refusal to endorse the appointment of Kim Jong-pil as prime minister.
		It says it wants to reconvene parliament to count the votes cast on the appointment on Monday - but the the ruling party has said that vote was illegal and should be held again.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/62257.stm (149 words)

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