Human Rights And Transnational Democracy In South Korea

Author : Ingu Hwang
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298217
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea written by Ingu Hwang and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s.

Author : Gabriel Jonsson
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811279144
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights And Democratic Consolidation In South Korea written by Gabriel Jonsson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has South Korea accomplished democratic consolidation since the Constitution was revised in 1987? Whereas political freedom has improved, the NSL is generally pointed out as the main obstacle to full freedom but it is not the only one to guarantee respect for human rights. Since full respect for human rights is not guaranteed, democratic consolidation has not been achieved. This book analyzes the issue based on the state of human rights that are an important part of democracy. The starting points are the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1987 South Korean Constitution and the 2001 National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Act which are empirically tested. Definitions of democratic consolidation are applied. The study first investiga- tes legislation and human rights institutions, including the National Security Law (NSL), the Con-stitutional Court, the NHRC, adherence to international human rights law and the Universal Periodic Review. Then the impact of inter-Korean relations on human rights are reviewed based on the NSL, dispatches of leaflets across the border and conscientious objectors. Finally, freedom of expression, assembly and association, including the state of sexual minorities, trials of ex-presidents, death penalty, human trafficking and torture are studied.

Author : Hye Seung Chung
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978809662
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Movie Minorities written by Hye Seung Chung and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea’s increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Today it is not unusual to see a big-budget production about the pursuit of social justice or the protection of civil liberties contending for the top spot at the box office. With that cultural shift has come a diversification of film subjects, which range from undocumented workers’ rights to the sexual harassment experienced by women to high-school bullying to the struggles among people with disabilities to gain inclusion within a society that has transformed significantly since winning democratic freedoms three decades ago. Combining in-depth textual analyses of films such as Bleak Night, Okja, Planet of Snail, Repatriation, and Silenced with broader historical contextualization, Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of South Korean cinema’s role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across several identity-based categories.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in South Korea written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henriette Sinding Aasen
Publisher : University of Hawaii PressJournals
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace in Korea written by Henriette Sinding Aasen and published by University of Hawaii PressJournals. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is based on the Rafto symposium entitled "The Two Koreas: Sunshine Policy, Democracy, and Human Rights, " which was held in 2000.

Author : Kyung-Sup Chang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351548131
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Korea in Transition written by Kyung-Sup Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Korea has continued to impress the world in the way it has harnessed social modernization, economic development, political democratization and, most recently, multi-faceted globalization. Relying on both established and inventive citizenship perspectives, the authors in this volume collectively show that all these diverse societal transformations and achievements can be concretely and systematically comprehended in conjunction with citizens? reshaping identities, rights, and duties in civil society and national polity. South Koreans? eye-catching traits and trends of educational zeal, economic development, civil activism, nationalism, and neoliberal globalization are analyzed here as diverse yet often interconnected manifestations of citizenship politics. As shown comprehensively in this volume, the necessity of such citizenship-focused analyses is particularly evident in recent years as South Korea has been undergoing a condensed transition from class politics to citizenship politics.This book is a highly inclusive yet incisive account of modern and late modern Korea, utilizing citizenship as a powerful theoretical and analytical tool. Such judicious theoretical and analytical use of citizenship in respect to modern Korean history and society will in turn enable a meaningful expansion of theoretical and methodological utility of citizenship in contemporary global social sciences.This book was based on a special issue of Citizenship Studies.

Author : William Shaw
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684171199
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Korea written by William Shaw and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These chapters by eight Korea specialists present a new approach to human rights issues in Korea. Instead of using an external and purely contemporary standard, the authors work from within Korean history, treating the successive phases of Korea's modern century to examine the uneasy fate of human rights and some of the ideas of human rights as they have developed in the Korean context. Beginning with the Independence Club of the late nineteenth century and continuing through to the constitutional and judicial structures underlying the Sixth Republic Government of Roh Tae Woo in South Korea, these papers illuminate the sometimes complex interactions between modern Korean human-rights issues and the legacies of Korean culture and colonial occupation.The final sections deal with the usefulness and appropriateness of U.S. policies toward human rights in South Korea and comparatively with the overall issues raised in the volume.

Author : International League for Human Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book Democracy in South Korea written by International League for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHAPTER 5 LABOR RIGHTS

Author : Hwang Sok-yong
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788737164
Total Pages : 513 pages
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Download or read book Gwangju Uprising written by Hwang Sok-yong and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion On May 18, 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d’état and the martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence. Over the next ten days hundreds of students, activists, and citizens were arrested, tortured, and murdered. The events of the uprising shaped over a decade of resistance to the repressive South Korean regime and paved the way for the country’s democratization. This fresh translation by Slin Jung of a text compiled from eyewitness testimonies presents a gripping and comprehensive account of both the events of the uprising and the political situation that preceded and followed the violence of that period. Included is a preface by acclaimed Korean novelist Hwang Sok-yong. Gwangju Uprising is a vital resource for those interested in East Asian contemporary history and the global struggle for democracy.

Author : Andrew Yeo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425496
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Korean Human Rights written by Andrew Yeo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the emergence, evolution, and politics of North Korean human rights activism and its relevance for international policy.