The party was originally established by Woo Hee-jong and Choi Bae-geun as For the Citizens (Korean: 시민을위하여) on 2 March 2020, while condemning the United Future Party for forming its satellite party, the Future Korea Party, in order to obtain compensatory seats after the passage of a new electoral law.[2] It held its founding congress on 8 March and elected Woo and Choi as its co-Presidents.[3]
Nearly 75% of members of the Green Party Korea agreed to join the Democrat-led For the Citizens electoral alliance. However, they quickly left as soon as they joined. The Green Party left the electoral alliance after the Democratic Party's Secretary-General Yoon Ho-joong made sexist and transphobic remarks about sexual minorities. Two of the five National Assembly candidates for the Green Party Korea belong to the LGBT Community.[9]
On 25 March, the Democratic Party confirmed that they would send 7 MPs to this party.[10]
Following the 2020 elections, a process was launched to merge or absorb the Platform Party back into the Democratic Party of Korea by 15 May 2020, as its original task of obtaining new compensatory proportional seats in the election was complete.[11] On 13 May, the party declared its merge into the Democratic Party.[12]
The party's position towards same-sex marriage was not clear, as the Democratic Party did not want to include explicitly pro-LGBT parties in their alliance.[6]
