Categories: Journal, Volume 23.2
European Journal of Korean Studies
Promoting the study and understanding of Korea in the United Kingdom.
Abstract
This paper explores how the culture of protest in South Korea has changed since the pro-democracy movement against the military authoritarian regime in the 1980s and thereby contextualizes how the routinization of the candlelight vigils from the early 2000s impacts the nation’s politics. Candlelight vigils—outdoor assemblies of people lighting candles after sunset in the form of a peace ...