Editing Conservatism (section)

==== South Korea ====
{{Main|Conservatism in South Korea}}
{{Conservatism in South Korea}}
South Korean army general [[Park Chung Hee]] seized power in the [[May 16 coup]] of 1961, after which he was elected as the third [[President of South Korea]]. He introduced the highly authoritarian [[Yushin Constitution]], ushering in the [[Fourth Republic of Korea|Fourth Republic]]. He ruled the country as a dictator until [[Assassination of Park Chung Hee|his assassination]] by a fellow army general in 1979.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=Byung-Kook |last2=Vogel |first2=E. F. |year=2013 |title=The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea |publisher=Harvard University Press |pages=200–205 |isbn=978-0-674-06106-4}}</ref>

Right-wing conservative parties have dominated South Korean politics for most of its modern history, while the main opposition parties have been moderate centrist and not left-wing. South Korea's major conservative party, the [[People Power Party (South Korea)|People Power Party]], has changed its form throughout its history. First it was the [[New Korea Party|Democratic-Liberal Party]] and its first head was [[Roh Tae-woo]], who was the first President of the [[Sixth Republic of South Korea]]. Democratic-Liberal Party was founded by the merging of [[Roh Tae-woo]]'s [[Democratic Justice Party]], [[Kim Young Sam]]'s [[Reunification Democratic Party]] and [[Kim Jong-pil]]'s [[New Democratic Republican Party]]. [[Kim Young-sam]] became the fourteenth President of Korea.

When the conservative party was beaten by the opposition party in the general election, it changed its form again to follow the party members' demand for reforms. It became the [[New Korea Party]], but it changed again one year later since the President Kim Young-sam was blamed by the citizen for the [[International Monetary Fund]].{{clarify|date=March 2014}} It changed its name to [[Liberty Korea Party|Grand National Party]] (GNP). Since the late [[Kim Dae-jung]] assumed the presidency in 1998, GNP had been the opposition party until [[Lee Myung-bak]] won the presidential election of [[2007 South Korean presidential election|2007]].
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