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A Study on the Change of Paradigm of Korean Church Social Participation: From 1970 to 2000

myung bae Kim 1

1숭실대학교

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ABSTRACT

Korean Christians have become indispensable in the democratization of Korean society and the human rights movement by developing social participation campaigns in diverse sectors from the birth of the Yushin regime in the 1970s to the establishment of the democratic government through the uprising of 6.10 in 1987. In particular, Christian intellectuals played an important role in advancing the democratization of Korean society by criticizing the authoritarian regime, and in several sector movements including anti - democratic democratization movement, they played an important role in the formation and development of the movement. On the other hand, the Christian progressive forces that adopted the democratization movement as a missionary task in the 1970s under the Yushin regime began to recognize that democratization should be resolved in the 1980s. In the 1980s, the Christian progressive forces were transformed into a new paradigm of ‘peaceful reunification’ movement on the Korean Peninsula along with the anti-humanitarian democratization and human rights movement in the way of social participation. This paper examines the paradigm shift in the type of social participation in Korea and examines its implications.

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