2021, Vol.19, No.1

Civil Society and NGO 2024 KCI Impact Factor : 0.84

pISSN : 1599-8568
https://journal.kci.go.kr/civil&NGO

Korean political culture generate new participation wave of political fandom. The fandom of Moon Jae-in is a typical example. Moon’s fandom have distinguishing features from cultural fandom. Moon’s fandom are forming dual fandom culture of cultural fandom and sports fandom. This paper analyzes this dual feature of Moon’s fandom, using Jenkins’ five levels of cultural fandom activities.

This research paper focused on the relationship between the media and democracy and tried to analyze the influence and implications of the structure of the Internet media and democracy, especially the public sphere. As for the detailed analysis criteria, based on the conditions of the public sphere suggested by Habermas, the possibility and risk factors of democracy consolidation in the current Korean Internet public sphere were examined. As a result of the analysis, first, the public sphere of the Internet media in Korea has participatory openness and has developed into a space for independent and intersubjective debate. Second, the Internet media, along with the offline media, are the main information providers, intermediaries, and converging agents of the Internet public sphere. Third, the factors that revitalized the public sphere of the Internet media were the formation of the Internet political forum and the integration of interests.

This paper seeks to propose solutions through the shrinking social crisis and the extinction of the local provinces in South Korea. We propose various ways to resolve structural contradictions in our society by system or policy to prepare for the post-Corona19’s era with Korean society after the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In particular, the issue of local extinction and population decline can be evaluated as urgent problems that need to be implemented by establishing an immediate solution to resolve the crisis in Korea's shrinking society. To this end, this paper consists of four chapters to conduct research. In the first chapter, we will link the shrinking social crisis in South Korea with the crisis in the local provinces to present the purpose of the study. In the second chapter, the political and social background of Korean society and necessity for research of this paper will be re-presented with a focus on existing discussions and research results. In the third chapter, we will present various examples and methods of application to enable specific and detailed ways to resolve the crisis of Korea's shrinking society. The fourth chapter, we will draw attention to the importance of resolving this shrinking social crisis in South Korea and the possibility of developing proposed revitalized ways of studying.