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@article{ART002607775},
author={Kim Jeongin},
title={A Tragic aspect of the Age of Divison- Birth of “Spies”},
journal={The Review of Korean History},
issn={1225-133X},
year={2020},
number={138},
pages={7-42},
doi={10.31218/TRKH.2020.06.138.7}

TY - JOUR
AU - Kim Jeongin
TI - A Tragic aspect of the Age of Divison- Birth of “Spies”
JO - The Review of Korean History
PY - 2020
VL - null
IS - 138
PB - The Historical Society Of Korea
SP - 7
EP - 42
SN - 1225-133X
AB - Even though spies are just spies, there are many types of spies in South Korea due to the reality of the peninsula split in half, and the existence of powerful anti-Communist sentiments. The most common type of spies we often talk and hear have been spies from North Korea infiltrating the South Korean society. On the other hand, spies of nature the other way around was only made known in the latter half of the 1990s. In the end, either North Korean spies or South, they were all real spies. At the same time, there have also been people who were not spies yet were accused to be, and were consequently deprived of their normal life and even their own lives. These were the so-called ‘Framed as spies.’ Dictatorial powers of South Korea, which considered themselves to be above the law, have created spies out of innocent people and at the same time tried to ‘convert’ real spies infiltrating South as well. Even after the dictatorship ended and a new era of Democracy kicked in following the Struggle of June in 1987, the intelligence bodies’ practice of framing people as spies did not go away and continued even during the Park Geun-hye administration. The power of the reference itself also firmly remained as a Scarlet letter. Right now, there are far-right activists calling no other than the President of South Korea to be a spy at the Gwang’hwa-mun Square. They also call out any person who differs in opinion from them and label them as NK-following Leftists as well as treacherous spies. We can see that a divided region like the Korean peninsula can have a lot of types of spies. Most regretfully, a powerful logic of hatred which sees anyone different as a spy still prevails amongst ultra rightists.
KW - North Korean spies infiltrating South Korea;operations to convert people ideologically;‘Public welfare’ office;‘Framed as spy;’ a narrative frame defining one as pursuing North Korean interests and agendas
DO - 10.31218/TRKH.2020.06.138.7
ER -

Kim Jeongin. (2020). A Tragic aspect of the Age of Divison- Birth of “Spies”. The Review of Korean History, 138, 7-42.

Kim Jeongin. 2020, "A Tragic aspect of the Age of Divison- Birth of “Spies”", The Review of Korean History, no.138, pp.7-42. Available from: doi:10.31218/TRKH.2020.06.138.7

Kim Jeongin "A Tragic aspect of the Age of Divison- Birth of “Spies”" The Review of Korean History 138 pp.7-42 (2020) : 7.

Kim Jeongin. A Tragic aspect of the Age of Divison- Birth of “Spies”. 2020; 138 : 7-42. Available from: doi:10.31218/TRKH.2020.06.138.7

Kim Jeongin. "A Tragic aspect of the Age of Divison- Birth of “Spies”" The Review of Korean History no.138(2020) : 7-42.doi: 10.31218/TRKH.2020.06.138.7

Kim Jeongin. A Tragic aspect of the Age of Divison- Birth of “Spies”. The Review of Korean History, 138, 7-42. doi: 10.31218/TRKH.2020.06.138.7

Kim Jeongin. A Tragic aspect of the Age of Divison- Birth of “Spies”. The Review of Korean History. 2020; 138 7-42. doi: 10.31218/TRKH.2020.06.138.7

Kim Jeongin. A Tragic aspect of the Age of Divison- Birth of “Spies”. 2020; 138 : 7-42. Available from: doi:10.31218/TRKH.2020.06.138.7

Kim Jeongin. "A Tragic aspect of the Age of Divison- Birth of “Spies”" The Review of Korean History no.138(2020) : 7-42.doi: 10.31218/TRKH.2020.06.138.7