Korean Socialist Party

The Korean Socialist Party (Korean: 한인사회당) was a socialist party of Korea.

[1] The party was founded in 1918 in Khabarovsk, Soviet Russia.

[1][2] In April 1919, the party merged with the Korean Democratic Corps (대한신민단; 大韓新民團) at the second representative congress of Korean Socialist Party.

[3][5] And in 1921, the party merged with Korean communist groups of Irkutsk and was renamed as the Korean Communist Party.

[5] 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.