[KS] {SPAM?}Re: question
eun at sfsu.edu
eun at sfsu.edu
Fri Jan 20 01:18:20 EST 2006
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 Parks assassination in
October 1979. Parks 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 detat.
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>
> Reply-To: Korean Studies Discussion List <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> 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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