demanding Korea's independence. After 1945, the student movements were mainly concerned with righting alleged wrongs in the Korean government. Students rose...

addition to education, student groups often play central roles in democratization and winning civil rights. Modern student activist movements span all ages, races...

was oppressive to a far-reaching degree, giving rise to many Korean resistance movements. By 1919 these became nationwide, marked by what became known...

Confederation of Korean Students' Union or the South Korean Federation of University Students Councils, is a pro-North Korea leftist student organization in South...

Korea Progressivism in South Korea Social conservatism Social liberalism (centre-left) Social democracy (centre-left to left-wing) Student movements in...

schools. South Korea is one of the top-performing OECD countries in reading, literacy, mathematics and sciences with the average student scoring about...

also known by its Korean name Juchesasangpa and Korean abbreviation Jusapa, was a political faction within South Korea's student movements that supported...

opposition, and uneven development of South Korea. The Masan discovery led to large student protests in Seoul, which were violently suppressed; a total...

Korea (Korean: 한국, romanized: Hanguk in South Korea, or 조선, Chosŏn in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula...

South Korean constitution to permit direct election of the president. Although pressure on the regime in the form of demonstrations by students and other...

ARDA estimate that as of 2010, 14.7% of South Koreans practice ethnic religion, 14.2% adhere to new movements, and 10.9% practice Confucianism. According...

The Gwangju Student Independence Movement (Korean: 광주 학생 독립 운동; Hanja: 光州學生獨立運動), or Gwangju Student Movement, was a protest in Gwangju between October...

Uprising, known in Korean as May 18 (Korean: 오일팔; Hanja: 五一八; RR: Oilpal; lit. Five One Eight), were student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju, South...

The labor movement of South Korea consists of multiple labor movements and organizations that advocate for the rights and well-being of workers. Organizations...

South Korean government. At this revolutionary time, there were many mobilized groups against the South Korean public agenda such as student movements, visual...

Korean nationalism can be viewed in two different contexts. One encompasses various movements throughout history to maintain a Korean cultural identity...

Formerly a single nation that was annexed by Japan in 1910, the Korean Peninsula was divided into occupation zones since the end of World War II on 2...

placed in each prefecture". A large number of Koreans organized themselves in education and reform movements, but Japanese dominance in Korea had become...

Japanese governor-general of Korea, known as the man who played the leading part in the Korea-Japan merger. There are 32 movements in this pattern to represent...

This page lists political regimes and movements that have been described as fascist. Whether a certain government is to be characterized as a fascist...

movement. The term "minjung-gayo" was coined in the mid-1980s when protest movements were rapidly growing in Korea, and to differentiate the minjung-gayo from...

to female involvement in the labor and student movements. The 1980s was a period of political turmoil and reform in South Korea. The Institute of Women's...

American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion. In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative...

Sexuality in South Korea has been influenced by culture, religion, and westernization. Viewpoints in contemporary society can be viewed as a conflict between...

Education in North Korea is universal and state-funded schooling by the government. As of 2021, UNESCO Institute for Statistics does not report any data...

The People's Republic of Korea (PRK; Korean: 조선인민공화국) was a short-lived provisional government that was organized at the time of the surrender of the Empire...

peninsula. In 1950, the Korean War broke out. North Korea overran South Korea until US-led UN forces intervened. At the end of the war in 1953, the border...

13th World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held from 1–8 July 1989 in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and was organized by the World Federation...

pretenses of curtailing North Korean influence in South Korean media. The dawn of the nineties brought about movements pushing for greater democracy and...

North Koreans in Russia consist mainly of three groups: international students, guest workers, and defectors and refugees. A 2006 study by Kyung Hee University...