Conservatism in South Korea

Conservatism in South Korea is generally considered to be primarily represented by the Grand National Party. There are other right-wing parties that used to have ties with the Grand National Party. It is also represented by in-party cliques such as the New Rights. The current Lee Myung-bak government is representative conservative administration of the Sixth Republic of South Korea.

The particular strand of conservatism in the South Korean political scene has been influenced from the military dictatorships of Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan. Specifically, the domestic political nature of conservatism has a strong elitist streak based on rapid modernization and political instability.[1]

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Values

Conservatism in South Korea is at odds against North Korea and upholds the National Security Act. This had led to some conservative citizen groups such as the Korean Council For Restoration National Identity and American and Korean Friendship National Council to protest against UNESCO headquarter in Paris, France, on May 2011 to prevent inscribing of the records of Gwangju Democratization Movement as a Memory of the World Register and to petition on reconsidering the North Korean special forces as the perpetrators of the GDM.[2]

Jeong Tae-heon (정태헌), professor of Korean history at the Korea University concerns on the overheated disputes of the term, liberal democracy in history textbooks with a strong conservative bias as the only purpose is to react against North Korea's political ideologies; much akin to political mentalities in the 1950s.[3]

Political parties

Media

The Chojoongdong media cartel wields the largest political influent in the South Korean political scene through the newspapers.

See also

References

  1. ^ "한국 보수주의를 묻는다". Historical Criticism (역사비평) (95). http://www.redian.org/news/articleView.html?idxno=22574. Retrieved 2011-09-10. 
  2. ^ Bae (배), Myeong-jae (명재) (2011-05-11). "보수단체 “광주학살은 北 특수부대 소행”" (in Korean). The Kyunghyang Shinmun. http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201105111900245&code=940702. Retrieved 2011-11-19. 
  3. ^ Park (박), Jang-jun (장준) (2011-11-13). ""한국의 보수는 1950년에 머물러 있다"" (in Korean). Media Today. http://www.mediatoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=98424. Retrieved 2011-11-19. 

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