Social Change and Household Geography in Mumun Period South Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel J. Lee ◽  
Martin T. Bale
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Mumun Period

Networked Collective Actions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunjin Seo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
South Korean ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Key Participants

Massive and sustained candlelight vigils in 2016–2017, the most significant citizen-led protests in the history of democratic South Korea, led to the impeachment and removal of then President Park Geun-hye. These protests took place in a South Korean media environment characterized by polarization and low public trust, and where conspiracy theories and false claims by those opposing impeachment were frequently amplified by extreme right-wing media outlets. How then was it possible for pro-impeachment protests seeking major social change to succeed? And why did pro-Park protesters and government efforts to defend Park ultimately fail? An agent-affordance framework is introduced to explain how key participants (agents), including journalists, citizens, social media influencers, bots, and civic organizations, together produced a broad citizen consensus that Park should be removed from office. This was accomplished by creatively employing affordances made available by South Korea’s history, legal system, and technologies. New empirical evidence illustrates the ongoing significant roles of both traditional and nontraditional agents as they continue to co-adapt to affordances provided by changing information environments. Interviews with key players yield firsthand descriptions of events. The interviews, original content analyses of media reports, and examination of social media posts combine to provide strong empirical support for the agent-affordance framework. Lessons drawn from citizen-led protests surrounding Park Geun-hye’s removal from office in South Korea are used to offer suggestions for how technology-enabled affordances may support and constrain movements for social change elsewhere in the world.

After the Candles Were Extinguished

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-132
Author(s):  
Hyunjin Seo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Civic Organizations ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Policy Decision Making

This chapter covers several issues South Korea has dealt with following President Park’s removal from office: the election of Moon Jae-in as president in May 2017, pro-Park groups’ anti-government rallies, and a public divide on potentially pardoning Park in 2021. In addition, it considers citizens’ evaluations of the impeachment candlelight vigils three years after Park’s impeachment. There is now a growing sense that the momentum for change ignited by the vigils may have been lost and that real systemic change has not been achieved. This chapter looks at how some actors within society are striving to sustain momentum for social change. While political parties and civic organizations in South Korea are experimenting with different strategies to engage citizens, some people are already demanding new forms of participatory democracy. Grass-roots organizations such as WAGL and Parti Co-op have emerged to design and implement alternative ways of incorporating citizens’ direct participation in policy decision-making processes.

scholarly journals REFLEKSI TERHADAP PEMBANGUNAN DAN ANCAMAN GLOBALISASI

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Sukri Sukri
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Third World ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
The Third ◽  
Rapid Fall ◽  
The Third World

Development as a paradigm and the theory of social change today is in crisis and fails to apply in various Third World countries. The failure of development in the third world actually occurs in the countries that are considered the most successful and most widely used as examples for other development countries. Namely capitalist countries model of NIC (newly industrialist countries) such as South Korea and Taiwan. Development failures also occur in countries that are modeled as new NIC countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Until now the explanation of various crises has not been completed. There is an explanation that blames the regime's corruption factor as an argument for explaining the rapid fall of capitalism in Asia. Nevertheless, a discourse before the fall of Asian capitalism occurred has begun in the wake of an attempt to repair or reform the system of capitalism. As a process of reform, the approach, ideology, and structure of discourse are not much different from the systems, structures and ideologies that are the foundation of development theory. Discourse that is known globalization.

Understanding Women, Health, and Social Change: The Case of South Korea

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heeran Chun ◽  
Lesley Doyal ◽  
Sarah Payne ◽  
Sung-Il Cho ◽  
Il-Ho Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Women Health

New Technology, Old Habits

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-44
Author(s):  
Inkyu Kang
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
The Internet

This paper investigates how the Internet has lost its power as a tool for political participation in South Korea, one of the world's most wired countries. Its 2002 presidential election was praised as one of the most spectacular examples of social change caused by the Internet. The following election in 2007, however, marked the total inability of the Internet to mobilize voters. How did the Internet, which is often claimed to have a democratizing potential, lose its power so quickly? By comparing the two elections, this paper shows why the effects of the Internet cannot be generalized. Although many scholars believe that cyberspace is anonymous and difficult to regulate, the Korean Internet is drastically different. This paper explores how the Internet evolves into many “internets” under the influence of a country's unique sociocultural factors.

scholarly journals “The Cane of Love:” Social and Cultural Reform of Corporal Punishment in South Korea

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seney Higginbotham
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Change ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
School Children ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Cultural Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rapid Social Change

With the public release of a very controversial video of a middle school teacher beating a student, much attention has been put on South Korea domestically as well as internationally to establish and reform policies regarding corporal punishment in schools. Since corporal punishment has been practiced in the classroom for centuries, it has been a hard fought battle of rapid social change and conservation of culture between those who wish to protect established cultural norms that accept corporal punishment in the classroom versus progressive ideas that strive to protect the integrity and human rights of school children.

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