Any “us vs. them” dynamic can be dangerous for democracy. But when that divide centers on mutually exclusive visions of a ...

A standoff between the impeached president’s security team and officials seeking to detain him was echoed on the streets ...

In the late 1990s, at the request of five South Korean organizations, I put together a conflict resolution training program ...

However, Korean democracy also features significant popular ... Key were the actions of a liberal and youthful mass movement. The resonance of this trajectory remains in the actions of today ...

"This situation has provided the Korean people with an invaluable lesson on what democracy truly entails and how our ...

The South Korean democracy movement grew out of the cracks in the system. On campus, the student unions were for the most part self-governing (apart from the Yushin Constitution years).

In South Korea, the feminist 4B movement, which rejects any intimacy with men, has been causing a stir for years. What kind ...

Yoon has been called a democrat. He is not. Along with banning me, he has declared martial law, stormed the legislature and ...

More than a reaction to Yoon’s autocratic and anti-feminist tendencies, the massive participation of women is the culmination ...

executive director of the Korean Women’s Movement for Peace, told me. “The damage to South Korean democracy is profound.” Martial law was last declared 44 years ago by military dictator ...

"This situation has provided the Korean people with an invaluable lesson on what democracy truly entails ... bloodshed of the 1980s anti-dictatorship movement -- from which many of the country's ...