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Human Rights in Korea
ISBN: 9781684171194
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / Harvard University Asia Center
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Art History.; Jewish Art.; Jewish Studies.; Sociology & Anthropology.; Social Sciences.; Religion & Society.;

These chapters by eight Korea specialists present a new approach to human rights issues in Korea. Instead of using an external and purely contemporary standard, the authors work from within Korean history, treating the successive phases of Korea's modern century to examine the uneasy fate of human rights and some of the ideas of human rights as they have developed in the Korean context. Beginning with the Independence Club of the late nineteenth century and continuing through to the constitutional and judicial structures underlying the Sixth Republic Government of Roh Tae Woo in South Korea, these papers illuminate the sometimes complex interactions between modern Korean human-rights issues and the legacies of Korean culture and colonial occupation.The final sections deal with the usefulness and appropriateness of U.S. policies toward human rights in South Korea and comparatively with the overall issues raised in the volume.