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@article{ART002625607},
author={Gong, Jin Sung},
title={Making Citizen-Soldier in Korea: A Failed Project or The Unfinished Project?},
journal={The Journal of Northeast Asia Research},
issn={2005-4432},
year={2020},
volume={35},
number={1},
pages={233-267},
doi={10.18013/jnar.2020.35.1.008}

TY - JOUR
AU - Gong, Jin Sung
TI - Making Citizen-Soldier in Korea: A Failed Project or The Unfinished Project?
JO - The Journal of Northeast Asia Research
PY - 2020
VL - 35
IS - 1
PB - The Institute for Northeast Asia Research
SP - 233
EP - 267
SN - 2005-4432
AB - This article examines how the republican ideal of turning citizens who are members of a political community into soldiers who are willing to take up arms in their own hands to defend their own political community, was emerged in the crisis of loosing sovereignty at the end of Korean Empire, maintained by citizens in the ‘imagined state’ under the Japanese imperial rule, distorted by forced conscription during two wars and military dictatorships, and declined soon under the influence of the neo-liberalist reformation of the society after being reappeared with the passionate movement for democratization, but also is evolving with the emergence of participative citizens observed during the candlelight vigils of 21st century. The ideal of citizen-soldiers will continue to have a very important political meaning as a regulative idea needed to criticize and correct reality, as long as we still believe that a political community should belong to all citizens, and that such a democratic republic should be defended.
KW - Citizen-Soldier;Republicanism;Liberalism;Pacificism;Military Service
DO - 10.18013/jnar.2020.35.1.008
ER -

Gong, Jin Sung. (2020). Making Citizen-Soldier in Korea: A Failed Project or The Unfinished Project?. The Journal of Northeast Asia Research, 35(1), 233-267.

Gong, Jin Sung. 2020, "Making Citizen-Soldier in Korea: A Failed Project or The Unfinished Project?", The Journal of Northeast Asia Research, vol.35, no.1 pp.233-267. Available from: doi:10.18013/jnar.2020.35.1.008

Gong, Jin Sung "Making Citizen-Soldier in Korea: A Failed Project or The Unfinished Project?" The Journal of Northeast Asia Research 35.1 pp.233-267 (2020) : 233.

Gong, Jin Sung. Making Citizen-Soldier in Korea: A Failed Project or The Unfinished Project?. 2020; 35(1), 233-267. Available from: doi:10.18013/jnar.2020.35.1.008

Gong, Jin Sung. "Making Citizen-Soldier in Korea: A Failed Project or The Unfinished Project?" The Journal of Northeast Asia Research 35, no.1 (2020) : 233-267.doi: 10.18013/jnar.2020.35.1.008

Gong, Jin Sung. Making Citizen-Soldier in Korea: A Failed Project or The Unfinished Project?. The Journal of Northeast Asia Research, 35(1), 233-267. doi: 10.18013/jnar.2020.35.1.008

Gong, Jin Sung. Making Citizen-Soldier in Korea: A Failed Project or The Unfinished Project?. The Journal of Northeast Asia Research. 2020; 35(1) 233-267. doi: 10.18013/jnar.2020.35.1.008

Gong, Jin Sung. Making Citizen-Soldier in Korea: A Failed Project or The Unfinished Project?. 2020; 35(1), 233-267. Available from: doi:10.18013/jnar.2020.35.1.008

Gong, Jin Sung. "Making Citizen-Soldier in Korea: A Failed Project or The Unfinished Project?" The Journal of Northeast Asia Research 35, no.1 (2020) : 233-267.doi: 10.18013/jnar.2020.35.1.008