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Today's Yonhap News reported that "Three minor opposition parties will form a new progressive party as part of efforts to boost their chances in next year's parliamentary elections, their leaders said, while the main opposition party is working hard to form a broad alliance with other liberal forces and civic groups.
Leaders of three minor parties - the Democratic Labor Party, the People's Participatory Party and a novice party made up of defectors from the Progressive New Party - announced that they will hold a convention to set the new progressive party's platform and nomination rules for the April general elections...
Talks have been under way for months to form a united front among minor opposition parties, but stakeholders of each party were divided over whether to form a coalition or create a new progressive party.
If combined, the bloc would hold seven seats in the 299-member unicameral parliament.
The breakthrough came as the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) is stepping up its efforts with left-leaning parties and civic groups to form a broad coalition to boost liberals' chances in next year's parliamentary and presidential votes..."

Well, this means in effect that - possibly - very soon we'll see (and have to fight against) another pro-capitalist "social"democratic party (alongside the main "opposition" DP) in the Nat'l Assembly, the S. Korean parliament!!

Related articles:
☞ Minor opposition party merger on the horizon (Hankyoreh, 11.18)
☞ With Progressive Party Union, What Comes After Is More Important (Kyunghyang, 11.14)
☞ DP urges left wing to unite (Korea Herald, 11.14)