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Plan Research to Overcome Regionality of 5·18 Democratization Movement: Focusing on biased distribution of academic paper writers and journals

  • Korea and Global Affairs
  • Abbr : KGA
  • 2017, 1(2), pp.5-32
  • DOI : 10.22718/kga.2017.1.2.001
  • Publisher : Korea Institute of Politics and Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : July 25, 2017
  • Accepted : September 11, 2017
  • Published : September 30, 2017

Jung Geun Ha 1

1계명대학교

ABSTRACT

5·18 Gwangju Democratization Movement was approved as a legal democratization movement by president Kim Young Sam in May 1993 and was approved as a global recording inheritance by UNESCO in May 2011 for the honor of Gwangju citizens to be restored. However, assessment on this until today after 35 years of occurrence is not nationally unified and the mind of Gwangju maybe only remembered as pride by Gwangju. There are several factors of this continuing situation but this researcher thinks the biggest factor is that professionals reanalyzing the truth ascertainment fitting spirit of the times who are in charge of citizen education are intensively distributed in Jeolla-do and Seoul. Moreover, the journal unlikely assessing 5·18 have enemies in the assailant area during activity that unity is not taking place with divided assessments and trapped in Honam. This study judges that the reason the meaning of 5·18 is trapped in Honam and not nationally unified is because of the limit of “adversary system.” Especially researchers who should analyze and explain this incident in a objective views are bias distributed (Gwangju·Jeolla-do> Seoul>Gyeongnam) in hometown areas that the possibility of 5·18 meaning not being unified was focused. Academic research studies, journal writers, and publication locations are divided in this study to reveal they are bias distributed and reveal that there is possibility that this biased distribution of researches are becoming obstacles in overcoming regionality.

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