The People's Victory 21 (Korean: 국민승리21) party (the later DLP) was formed in preparation for the presidential election of 1997.

As an example, they pointed to the slogan of Kwon Young-ghil, VoP21's presidential candidate, "Stand up, Korea!"

The Youth Progressive Party ran for election to the National Assembly in the Guro-gu local constituency, and attained 4.1% of the votes cast.

For the 2007 presidential election, Geum Min ran as the party's candidate for president.

He proposed the idea of social republicanism, subsequently adopted as a component of the party's platform.