<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear KS list members, I would like to send you the updated details of the following seminar. <br><br>Many thanks and see you then!<br><br>___________________<br><br><div dir="auto" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Monash University Korean Studies Modern History Seminar / LLCL Research Seminar:</b></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Reassessing the Place of the Inch\u2019\u014fn and the Konkuk University violence in the history of the South Korean Democratization Movement</i></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Location: </b>Monash University, Clayton Campus, 12 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton-G-G17-LLCL Auditorium (Arts), Melbourne, Australia, and via Zoom</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b>Reassessing the Place of the Inch\u2019\u014fn and the Konkuk University violence in the history of the South Korean Democratization Movement</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>1986 saw two of the most violent outbreaks of anti-Chun Doon-hwan protests since the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. In May 1986, the city center of Inch\u2019\u014fn exploded in a day-long pitched battle between riot police and protestors as well as factional violence amongst opposing groups. The following November saw an extended siege at Konkuk University\u2019s Seoul campus during which students battled riot police. In the aftermath of the violence, the government launched a massive roundup of anti-dictatorship activists, which Chun Doo-hwan believed would silence his most vocal opponents. In actual fact, the opposite happened, and anti-dictatorship activism expanded. In the historical memorialization of the South Korean Democratization movement, the incidents at Inch\u2019\u014fn and Konkuk University have been largely overshadowed by other events, such as the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. In this paper, I argue that Inch\u2019\u014fn and Konkuk University were central to the unrest that toppled Chun Doo-hwan\u2019s rule and ended three decades of military rule. I use contemporary South Korean and US news reports, oral testimonies, declassified CIA documents, and police arrest reports to investigate the events at Inch\u2019\u014fn and Konkuk University. As part of this analysis, I consider the role of political violence, ideology, contingency and the geopolitical situation in steering the South Korean people towards democratic transition.</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Speaker Bio: </b></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Andrew David Jackson is Associate Professor and Director of Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) at Monash University, Melbourne where he has worked since 2017. He is the author of The Musin Rebellion: Politics and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Korea, published with the University of Hawai`i Press (2016), and The Late and Post-dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea, published by Edinburgh University Press (2023). 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class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 at 14:54, Sandy Nguyen <<a href="mailto:sandy.nguyen1@monash.edu">sandy.nguyen1@monash.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Dear KS List members, please note the forthcoming seminar. Best, Sandy</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Monash University Korean Studies Modern History Seminar / LLCL Research Seminar:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Reassessing the Place of the Inch\u2019\u014fn and the Konkuk University violence in the history of the South Korean Democratization Movement</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Location: Monash University, Clayton Campus, 12 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton-G-G17-LLCL Auditorium (Arts), Melbourne, Australia.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Abstract: Reassessing the Place of the Inch\u2019\u014fn and the Konkuk University violence in the history of the South Korean Democratization Movement</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1986 saw two of the most violent outbreaks of anti-Chun Doon-hwan protests since the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. In May 1986, the city center of Inch\u2019\u014fn exploded in a day-long pitched battle between riot police and protestors as well as factional violence amongst opposing groups. The following November saw an extended siege at Konkuk University\u2019s Seoul campus during which students battled riot police. In the aftermath of the violence, the government launched a massive roundup of anti-dictatorship activists, which Chun Doo-hwan believed would silence his most vocal opponents. In actual fact, the opposite happened, and anti-dictatorship activism expanded. In the historical memorialization of the South Korean Democratization movement, the incidents at Inch\u2019\u014fn and Konkuk University have been largely overshadowed by other events, such as the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. In this paper, I argue that Inch\u2019\u014fn and Konkuk University were central to the unrest that toppled Chun Doo-hwan\u2019s rule and ended three decades of military rule. I use contemporary South Korean and US news reports, oral testimonies, declassified CIA documents, and police arrest reports to investigate the events at Inch\u2019\u014fn and Konkuk University. As part of this analysis, I consider the role of political violence, ideology, contingency and the geopolitical situation in steering the South Korean people towards democratic transition.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Speaker Bio: </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Andrew David Jackson is Associate Professor and Director of Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) at Monash University, Melbourne where he has worked since 2017. He is the author of The Musin Rebellion: Politics and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Korea, published with the University of Hawai`i Press (2016), and The Late and Post-dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea, published by Edinburgh University Press (2023). He is currently working on a history of social unrest in South Korea.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">\u2010----\u2010------</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Kind Regards,</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Sandy Nguyen</span><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, 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