PLSC 389E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Military Dictatorship, Gwangju, Chaebol
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Rst tier of people who demand political change need more people, across the classes socio, economic, political, and international conditions for democratization. Economic development and democratization, the middle class issue (ses) starts with students and middle class. Kim dae jung- oppositional political elite group of politicians demanding political change chaeya: people who were identi ed as intellectuals for democratic change. Actors against democratization? chaebol why were the chaebol against change? didn"t want to be told what to do political leaders in power. Military dictatorship: lack of political legitimacy + regime competition + american interest. Sk felt strong competition to nk we are poorer than communist counterpart huge amounts of support from us economically, politically, militarily. Enabling nk to change market will be important for overthrow of government. Chaya and minjung: 3-mins. (minju, minjung, minjok: democracy, people, and independence/uni cation) Kwangju, single 7-year term, and human rights violations. Interrogation of a female student activist (insook kwon) inviting sexual assault in 1986.