The Republic of Korea: No Democracy as We Know

The Constitutional Court of Korea made history on Friday by ordering the dissolution of a political party for the first time since the court’s establishment in 1988. It was also the first time a political party was disbanded in South Korea since 1958. The entity in question was the Unified Progressive Party (UPP), a leftist political presence that had just five members in South Korea’s 300-seat National Assembly. In addition to the party’s dissolution, the court ordered its five lawmakers to f