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Like in many other states worldwide, democracy is in trouble in
South Korea, entering a state of regressionin the past decade,
barely thirty years after its emergence in 1987. The society that
had ordinary citizensleading "candlelight protests" demanding the
impeachment of Park Geun-Hye in 2016-17 has becomepolarized amid an
upsurge of populism, driven by persistent structural inequalities,
globalization, and therise of the information society. The symptoms
of democratic decline have been increasingly hard to miss: the
demonization of politicalopponents, erosion of democratic norms,
and the whittling away of the courts' independence. Perhapsmost
disturbing is that this all took place under a government dominated
by former pro-democracyactivists. Will the election victory of
opposition leader Yoon Suk-Yeol end this democratic erosion, or
willthe rift between South Korea's progressives and conservatives
only deepen with the next administration? The contributors to this
volume trace the sources of illiberalism in today's Korea; examine
how politicalpolarization is plaguing its party system; discuss how
civil society and the courts have become politicized;look at the
roles of inequality, education, and social media in the country's
democratic decline; andconsider how illiberalism has affected
Korea's foreign policy.
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