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A Recycling of the Past or the Pathway to the New? Framing the South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

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Albert L. Park*
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Department of History, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, USA
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Email: albert.park@cmc.edu
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Abstract

This essay supplies brief historical context on the Candlelight Protest movement in South Korea (2016–17) and provides the thematic and theoretical framing for the forum “The South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement and Its Discontents.” It lays the groundwork for approaching the study of the protests and assessing their historical and contemporary value for the push for political change, challenging economic norms and social renewal in Korea. In particular, this essay helps frame the forum as a platform for interrogating the connections between revolution, democracy, and capitalism and the limits of and potential for political change within the political economy of Korea and elsewhere.

Keywords

agricultural cooperativesCandlelight Protests (2016–17)capitalismdemocracyenvironmentKoreaLGBTQ+revolutionSewŏl ferry disasterworkers
Type
Forum: South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 81 , Issue 1 , February 2022 , pp. 101 - 105
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022

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