The New Right movement in the South Korean politics

Politics of South Korea

Politics of the Republic of Korea takes place in the framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is the head of state, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and...

 is a school of political thought based on neoconservative

Neoconservatism

Neoconservatism in the United States is a branch of American conservatism. Since 2001, neoconservatism has been associated with democracy promotion, that is with assisting movements for democracy, in some cases by economic sanctions or military action....

 values.

School textbooks

Some well-known politicians from the "old right" GNP

Grand National Party

The Grand National Party is a conservative political party in South Korea. Its Korean name, Hannara, has a double meaning as "Great National" and "Korean National." The GNP holds a majority of seats in the 18th Assembly, lasting from 2008 to 2012....

 indicated commonality with the New Right groups, including Park Geun-hye

Park Geun-hye

Park Geun-hye is a South Korean politician. She is a member of the Korean National Assembly and was the head of the conservative Grand National Party. She is now in her fourth parliamentary term, having first been elected in 1998. Her father was Park Chung-hee, president of South Korea from 1963...

 endorse the anti-North Korean New Right's version of alternative Korean History textbooks through a foundation called Text Book Forum. The Lee Myung-bak government

Lee Myung-bak government

The Lee Myung-bak government is sixth consecutive government of the Sixth Republic of South Korea. It was officially launched on February 25th, 2008, under Lee Myung-bak's victory in the 2007 presidential election...

's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology

Ministry of Education, Science and Technology

The Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology is a cabinet-level division of the government of South Korea. It was created on February 29, 2008-External links:*...

 has tried to implant the next Korean New Right version of Korean history textbook for the public school usage. The NR's groups' demanding pressure to use their hawkish Korean history textbooks has eventually make them inconsistently incompatible with the dovish ethics textbooks.

Media

Gyegan Sidaejeongsin (겨간 시대정신) New Daily (뉴데일리)

Organizations

New Right National Union (Note: Hangul

Hangul

Hangul,Pronounced or ; Korean: 한글 Hangeul/Han'gŭl or 조선글 Chosŏn'gŭl/Joseongeul the Korean alphabet, is the native alphabet of the Korean language. It is a separate script from Hanja, the logographic Chinese characters which are also sometimes used to write Korean...

 URL) Sidaejeongsin

See Also

• Conservatism in South Korea
  Conservatism in South Korea
  Conservatism in South Korea is generally considered to be primarily represented by the Grand National Party. There are other right-wing parties that used to have ties with the Grand National Party. It is also represented by in-party cliques such as the New Rights...
  
  
• Lee Myung-bak government
  Lee Myung-bak government
  The Lee Myung-bak government is sixth consecutive government of the Sixth Republic of South Korea. It was officially launched on February 25th, 2008, under Lee Myung-bak's victory in the 2007 presidential election...
  
  , one of the benefactors of the Korean New Right movement
• New Right
  New Right
  New Right is used in several countries as a descriptive term for various policies or groups that are right-wing. It has also been used to describe the emergence of Eastern European parties after the collapse of communism.-Australia:...