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Peace-building, Spirituality and Korea’s Candlelight Revolution: A Light to the World
- Religions of Korea
- 2019, 45(), pp.227~272
- Publisher : The Research Center of Religions
- Research Area : Humanities > Religious Studies
- Received : January 15, 2019
- Accepted : February 2, 2019
- Published : February 15, 2019
1University of British Columbia
Candidate
ABSTRACT
The Korean people, over the centuries, have shown that they will protest injustice, but they prefer to do so peacefully. We have seen that in protests during the long Joseon dynasty and during Japanese colonial rule. We have also witnessed Koreans relying on peaceful protests in their modern fight for democracy and, in more recent years, for a government that listens to their concerns. The culmination of this tradition of peaceful protests was the candlelight demonstrations that led, in 2017, to the peaceful overthrow of the Park Geun-hye government. The world watched in awe as tens of thousands filled the streets of Seoul week after week to peacefully demand that their president step down. What that goal was finally achieved, the world could see the strength of Korean spirituality that calls for human beings to respect their common humanity despite their political differences. That display of the power of Korean spirituality offers hope that the tense standoff between north and south Korea that has lasted for decades may soon come to a peaceful end.
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[book]
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