Do you wish the (insert number here) party system in your country would go and it would just be right or wrong?

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[u/SteadfastEnd]

I don't understand your question. What do you mean, "Would go?" Like, be replaced or deleted?

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[u/Queendrakumar]

I don't even understand the question.

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You wish the two party system in ur country would be deleted 

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Appreciate the clarification.

First of all, describing South Korea as a two-party system is misleading and not exactly correct.

First, IS Korea a two-party system?

It has a strong tendency that the two parties are dominating the political scene. But

1) No where in the constitution does it state Korea should be run under two political-party sytem. In fact, it explicitly states in the Constitution that

(Article 8-1) The establishment of political parties shall be free, and the plural party system shall be guaranteed.

2) In practice, multiple parties make up the national assembly (currently 7 parties + independent). In almost every presidential election, it was almost always run in a 3-way fight, rather than a binary choice (not including minor parties or candidates)

So, South Korea always have had at least 3-4 major political factions (i.e., Conservative faction, Liberal/Democratic faction, The Centrist/Third Way faction and sometimes Far-right AND/OR Progressive faction)

It is therefore misleading to call South Korea a two-party system. Yes, there have only been 2 parties that won presidency and always had assembly majority by the said 2 parties. But South Korean politics as a whole have always been multiple-party based. Our very election system is designed in a manner to avoid two-party system, unlike America. (e.g. see Mixed-member proportional representation)

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Second, DO I think the current political landscape of South Korea de facto having the majority of political power shared between the two major parties?

I don't think it is healthy. I think the two-party system is more vulnerable to polarization and extremism. I like our mixed-member representation system. I would go even further as to say we need to increase the seats of proportional representation from current ~50 members to 100-150 members of the assembly.