Chung, Il Joon. 2009. "Demilitarizing Politics in South Korea: Toward a Positive Consolida‐ tion of Civilian Supremacy". In: Advances in Military Sociology: Essays in Honor of Charles C. Moskos, edited by ...
Korea's strategic location amid east Asia has been a crucial factor in its political and cultural history. Korea has figured greatly in east Asian civilization, mutually prospering with her neighbors but also falling prey to their ambitions at times. Since antiquity, Koreans have studied abroad i...
HOW DOES THAT LEGACY FIT INTO THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF SOUTH KOREA? South Korea has a long history with martial law and autocratic, even military, rule. This latest declaration of martial law is by some counts the 17th instance in Korean history. The last time it was declar...
South Korea - History, Culture, Economy: The following is a treatment of South Korea since the Korean War. For a discussion of the earlier history of the peninsula, see Korea. The First Republic, established in August 1948, adopted a presidential s
South Korea(more) Written by Hyug-Baeg Im Professor of Political Science, Korea University. Hyug-Baeg Im, Young Ick Lew Endowed Chair Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Professor of Korean History, Hallym University, Ch'unch'on, Korea, 1985–...
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The arrest of South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol defuses a potentially dangerous standoff between investigators and his security team, but the country remains mired in deep political turmoil. Yoon is the first sitting president in South Korean history to be detained after ...
Martial law has a dark history in South Korea During the dictatorships that emerged as South Korea rebuilt from the 1950-53 Korean War, leaders occasionally proclaimed martial law that allowed them to station soldiers, tanks and armored vehicles on streets or in public places to prev...
South Korea HISTORY OF KOREA Around A.D. 668, several competing kingdoms were unified into a single dominion on the Korean Peninsula. Successive regimes maintained Korean political and cultural independence for more than a thousand years; the last of these ruling kingdoms would be the Choson ...
Political activism looms large in South Korea's modern political history, making a major contribution to the evolution of democracy in that country. For decades, the main game, and the focus of most academic scholarship, was the establishment of full participatory democracy in the country. Yet,...