The 15th presidential election is to elect the 15th president of the Republic of Korea. Thursday, 18 December 1997 took place on saejeongchi a candidate for the National Conference of the Kim Dae-jung was elected.

Saejeongchi the National Conference of the president candidate Kim Dae-jung and president of the United Liberal Democrats on November 3, the Free Democratic Party in 1997, a presidential candidate to sign the agreement and presidential election to Kim Dae-jung.If Kim Dae-jung was elected president after unifying the candidate agreed to form a government.

It is of historical significance that it is the first peaceful democratic regime change in 36 years for a DPP party to come to power for the first time since the Cabinet of Scenes was lost in the May 16 military coup in 1961.