This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democratic period.

Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of 20th-century Korea, this book provides detailed analysis of major uprisings that have

South Korea provides an intellectual challenge in the fields of social movements and democracy in that intense mobilization and the strong influence of social m

1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the "dark age for democracy." Most scholarship on South Korea's democracy movement and civil society has focused o

Streets in Korea rarely go quiet without first having a public demonstration, and Korean citizens are known as seasoned protestors, charting the course of natio