This study presents two kinds of characteristics of party integrations in the First republic. First one is multiple memberships, which most of parties lots of included members with affiliations of two more parties. Collapse of moderate faction made ri...
This study presents two kinds of characteristics of party integrations in the First republic. First one is multiple memberships, which most of parties lots of included members with affiliations of two more parties. Collapse of moderate faction made right oriented party competitions without the left, and thus agencies of party splits and merger were right oriented incumbents. Second feature is discontinuity of parties' evolutions. The freedom Party formed with merger among Dok-chok. This organization become base of Korean Peoples' Party. After that time, membership between parties divided clearly. So party merger and splits stopped, and thus, stable two-party-system formed in middle of 1950s.