[KS] {SPAM?}Re: question

[eun at sfsu.edu]

General Park Chung-hee introduced Yushin or the “Revitalizing Reform” system, 
which legitimized the authoritarian-led development.  People were fed up with 
the Yushin system and student demonstrators in 1979 intensified in the latter 
half of the year with labour and student demonstrations in the Pusan and Masan 
areas which was later called the “Pu-Ma Uprising.”  The Yushin system led to 
economic instability and unrest, which cumulated in Park’s assassination in 
October 1979.  Park’s assassination led to calls by students and laborers for 
the abolition of the Yushin system and direct elections.  Such hopes were 
dashed when at the end of 1979 when General Chun Do-hwan and Roh Tae-Woo 
seized power from the interim government through a coup d’etat.  

References:
David I. Steinberg The Republic of Korea: Economic Transformation and Social 
Change. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press) 1989.  59-68. 
Philip West, Steven I. Levine, and Jackie Hiltz, eds. America's Wars in Asia: 
A Cultural Approach to History and Memory. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe), 1998. 72-
73.

I hope that the summary and references help.

Eun Jung Smith
Art History Graduate Student
San Francisco State University


Quoting William Brown <wmbbrown at hotmail.com>:

> 
> For some reason I seem to remember they translated yushin into "revitalizing
> 
> reforms" in English.
> 
> Bill Brown
> 
> From: "Alon Levkowitz" <levko at smile.net.il>
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> To: <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> Subject: [KS] question
> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:24:21 +0200
> 
> Dear group.
> I would like to consult the group about a word - Yushin (Yusin). Was the 
> term Yushin for the yushin constitution under Park's regime was chosen for a
> 
> specific goal. Does the word, without the problematic applications of the 
> constitution by Park, means positive or negative?
> Thanks
> Alon
> Dr. Alon Levkowitz
> Email: levko at smile.net.il
> Tel/Fax: 972-3-6133045
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