[KS] On term "haebang"

[Matti Tervo]

Dear all,

Have any of you run into the term "haebang" (Revised romanization) in
respective fields. I am studying political rhetoric of the 1980s and Chun
Doo-hwan seems to have grown an affection to this term.

Obviously it is linked to the term and concept "jiefang" in Chinese and
some of the events that deserve the name "liberation" in China during
1940s and 1950s.

I am interested where this term might have occurred the first time in East
Asia and especially in Korea and with what kind of connototations.

Thank you,

Matti Tervo
Jyväskylä University graduate student