Roh Moo-hyun — Uri-led participatory reform plus KORUS FTA (2003-2008)

Doctrine — stated goals and content

Roh Moo-hyun participatory-reformist centre-left plus KORUS FTA liberal-trade pivot — the "people's lawyer" president's self- styled "Participatory Government" (Chamyeo Jeongbu) combined regional-balance redistribution, property-tax tightening against real-estate speculation, Sunshine-continuity engagement with the North, and a pragmatic liberal trade pivot most visible in the June 2007 signing of KORUS FTA. Economic school: hybrid progressive social policy plus classical-liberal trade stance — heterodox within the Korean left, alienating much of Uri Party on KORUS and Iraq deployment. Key policy content: (i) impeachment by National Assembly 12 March 2004 over electoral-neutrality violation, reinstated by Constitutional Court 14 May 2004 (opposition GNP and MDP backed impeachment); (ii) Uri Party April 2004 general election landslide 152/299 seats, first progressive legislative majority in ROK history; (iii) KORUS FTA signed 30 June 2007 (ratified 2011 under Lee Myung-bak); (iv) comprehensive property- tax "Jonghap Budongsansae" August 2005 targeting multi-home owners, capital-gains tax hardened; (v) Sejong administrative capital relocation plan 2004-05 to Chungcheong (Constitutional Court struck Capital-Relocation Special Act October 2004; revised version passed 2005); (vi) Iraq Zaytun Division dispatch 2004 — third- largest troop contribution after US/UK, triggered progressive revolt; (vii) October 2007 inter-Korean summit with Kim Jong-il extending Sunshine engagement; (viii) Participatory regional- balance policy and Innovation Cities dispersing 153 public agencies; (ix) Real-estate-market surge despite property-tax tightening became the signature failure. Popularity: 2002 election won 48.9% vs Lee Hoi-chang 46.6%; approval collapsed to ~10-20% by 2006-07 on real-estate prices and KORUS opposition from own base; Uri Party dissolved into Democratic Party February 2008. Coherence line: progressive social policy + KORUS/Iraq liberal-trade-and- alliance pivot + Sunshine-continuity — the internal contradictions that broke Uri Party.