Organizing Dissent against Authoritarianism: The South Korean Student Movement in the 1980s

This article deals with the main ideas and activities of antigovernment student activists in South Korea in the 1980s. The article argues that the South Korean student movement displayed great inventiveness with the methods of struggle, as student activists sought various ways to circumvent the legal constraints imposed on them by the repressive Chun Doo-hwan regime (1980-1987). The organizing and politicizing activities of the student activists represented dynamic and creative responses to the limitations and possibilities of the particular political contexts in South Korea during the 1980s.

keywords: social movements, student movements, labour movements, 20th century history of Korea, South Korea, South Korean politics, civil society, Marxism, the June Uprising of 1987, the Gwangju Uprising of 1980, social movements, student movements, labour movements, 20th century history of Korea, South Korea, South Korean politics, civil society, Marxism, the June Uprising of 1987, the Gwangju Uprising of 1980

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Vol.45 No.3

Organizing Dissent against Authoritarianism: The South Korean Student Movement in the 1980s

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