The curtain has gone up on the new party launched by Ahn Cheol-soo, a former software mogul-turned-lawmaker who sent a shock through Korean politics last month when he walked away from the party he co-founded.Speaking to roughly 2-thousand of his supporters and promoters at the party's launch on Sunday at the Sejong Center in Seoul,… Ahn promised to create a new politics by the people and for the people and vowed a change of government in the years to come.(KOREAN)"I will resist and stand strong against any force trying to counter political reform."The People's Party is expected to take shape quickly ahead of the April general elections.The party's preparatory committee, also launched Sunday, will be co-chaired by Yoon Yeo-joon , a former environment minister, and Han Sang-jin , a professor at Seoul National University.The new party will hold conventions in five cities and provinces around the country, starting with Seoul on January 21st, followed by an inauguration ceremony in early February.The buzz surrounding the new party has already captured the public's attention.A recent poll shows the approval rating for Ahn's new party even before its launch was 42-percent,… far outpacing the main opposition Minjoo Party of Korea, which only had 29-percent support.(STANDUP)"Now that the party is off to a running start, the question is whether it will be able to recruit enough new members ahead of the general election in April."Pundits say that the success of Ahn's new party depends on his ability to recruit more lawmakers to his cause.But Ahn has already stumbled a bit in his recruitment efforts, after he had to cancel a plan to bring in three high-level officials when it was discovered they were linked to corruption cases.Shin Se-min, Arirang News.