The primary aim that we study and research on the democracy is to say to improve the democracy of our community towards desirable directions. In 1960, people's desire and aspiration for a democracy in Korea finally brought about a dramatic political change, April Revolution, which overthrew the old regime(the government of Syngman Rhee). Nonetheless, the Democratic Party Government failed in building and solidifying stable democracy in our society. For that reason, it might be a government which plainly showed the possibility and limitation of democracy in contemporary Korean political history. It has suggested lots of things, even including that failure. As of now, in retrospect, it is no exaggeration to say that the history of Korean politics in the past 55 years was a process for the development of democracy. It showed somehow discontinuous and even regressive path rather than steadily advancing, however, in macro perspective it has certainly progressed gradually. As it were, the Second Republic can be regarded as the first government which put democratic competition and procedure into practice on the basis of a representative democratic principle. But the Second Republic was resulted in collapse on account of followings: the factional struggle for power in the political scope and the inability to policy implementation owing to it, as well as its immatureness filtering politically surged citizen's urge. At the present situation, our study on the previous governmental regime aims just not to simply describe historical facts. What we research on undesirable historical events and processes is to restructure the past in order to have an answer for questions facing us today, through analyzing past events focusing on the structure and behaviors. This research aims to analyze why the democratic system of the Second Republic has been frustrated. At present, what we review the democracy of the Second Republic is to get present political implications, through investigating how Korean democracy went along with contents and directions at that time, what has been the result, and why it was frustrated.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.