Korean Socialist Party


The Korean Socialist Party was a socialist party of Korea.

History

The party was founded in 1918 in Khabarovsk, Soviet Russia. In April 1919, the party merged with the Korean Democratic Corps at the second representative congress of Korean Socialist Party. The establishment of the party was supported by the local Bolshevik authority in the Russian Far East, represented by the likes of Alexander Krasnoshchyokov and Alexandra Kim. In 1921, the party merged with Korean communist groups of Irkutsk and was renamed as the Korean Communist Party.