EAST 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Park Chung-Hee, Gwangju, 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
5 Feb 2018
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Dec 1979, gen. chun doo-hwan takes over in bloody internal coup- reinstatement of martial law. Dashes hopes for democratic transition after park chung-hee. Chun sends troops to quell massive anti-government demonstrations in kwangju city in. Total death count unknown, but estimates of around 2000 civilians killed. Echoes of anti-communist purges of the post-liberation period and park chung-hee"s regional bias in development. Anti-government activists, students and laborers re-examine the concept of minjung culture. Potential to criticize the government by reappropriating folk art, satire, and traditional performance art. Populist ideology that become a powerful lens through which to condemn the status quo. Shared discourse among agents of social change- students and labor , other marginalized groups. Minjung are identified as the true subject of history, not the elites or the nation-state. A mobilizing myth and a philosophy of history. Becomes a counterculture of sk development that challenged the state rule.
