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*Soh Jaipil Lecture Series*
*New Books in Korean Studies *

*Seeds of Mobilization:The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy *
Friday, October 18, 2024
11 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. (EDT)

Hybrid Event
Elliott School of International Affairs, Room B17
1957 E ST NW, Washington DC
Virtual via Zoom
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Event Description
South Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory, a
testament to how economic development leads to democracy.* Seeds of
Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy*
(University of Michigan Press, 2024) takes a closer look at the history of
South Korea to show that Korea’s advance to democracy was not linear.
Instead, while Korea’s national economy grew dramatically under the regimes
of Park Chung Hee (1961–79) and Chun Doo Hwan (1980–88), the political
system first became increasingly authoritarian. Because modernization was
founded on industrial complexes and tertiary education, these structures
initially helped bolster the authoritarian regimes. In the long run,
however, these structures later facilitated the anti-regime protests by
various social movement groups—most importantly, workers and students—that
ultimately brought democracy to the country. By using original subnational
protest event datasets, government publications, oral interviews, and
publications from labor and student movement organizations, *Seeds of
Mobilization* shows how socioeconomic development did not create a steady
pressure toward democracy but acted as a “double-edged sword” that
initially stabilized autocratic regimes before destabilizing them over
time. The book also reveals how the nonlinear path from economic
development to democracy has led to enduring differences in political
attitudes and behavior across generations, shaped by their distinct
experiences of economic growth and authoritarianism.
*Speaker*
*JOAN CHO* is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, and Associate
Professor by courtesy of Government, at Wesleyan University. Her research
and teaching interests are authoritarianism, democratization, social
movements, and authoritarian legacies in Korea and East Asia. Dr. Cho’s
first book, *Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South
Korea’s Democracy *(University of Michigan Press, 2024), examines the roles
of industrialization and tertiary education in South Korea’s nonlinear path
to democracy. Her work on authoritarian regime support, South Korean
democracy movement, and electoral accountability in post-transition South
Korea are published in *Electoral Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies,
Studies in Comparative International Development, and Routledge Handbook of
Korean Culture and Society*. Dr. Cho is also an adjunct fellow
(non-resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Korea Chair, associate-in-research of the Council of East Asian Studies at
Yale University, and a member of the APSA Committee on the Status of Asian
Pacific Americans in the Profession. Previously, she was Vice President and
governing board member of the Association of Korean Political Studies and a
2018-2019 CSIS-USC U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholar. She received her Ph.D. in
Political Science from the Department of Government at Harvard University.
*Moderator*
*CELESTE ARRINGTON* is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Political
Science and International Affairs at GW. She is the Director of the GW
Institute for Korea Studies and Co-Director of the East Asia National
Resource Center (2024- Present). She specializes in comparative public
policy, law and social change, lawyers, and governance, with a regional
focus on the Koreas and Japan. She is also interested in Northeast Asian
security, North Korean human rights, and transnational activism. Her first
book was *Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Governmental
Accountability in Japan and South Korea* (Cornell, 2016). She has published
numerous articles and, with Patricia Goedde, she co-edited R*ights Claiming
in South Korea* (Cambridge, 2021). Her next book, forthcoming in
Cambridge’s Studies in Law and Society series, analyzes the legalistic turn
in Korean and Japanese regulatory style through paired case studies related
to tobacco control and disability rights. She received a PhD from UC
Berkeley, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and an AB from
Princeton University. She has been a fellow at Harvard, the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton, and the LudwigMaximilians University in Munich.
GW’s Office of the Vice President for Research awarded her the 2021 Early
Career Research Scholar Award. Her article with Claudia Kim won the 2023
Asian Law and Society Association’s distinguished article award.
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