“South-South Conflict" in South Korean Democracy: a reflection on some democratic solutions

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· 발행기관 : 한국외국어대학교 글로벌정치연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 글로벌정치연구 / 4권 / 2호 / 145 ~ 168페이지
· 저자명 : 권수현

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Conflicts are essential in democracy and democracy has institutions for conflict resolution. Namely, Conflict and democracy have a mutual reciprocity relation. Therefore outbursts of conflicts are positive appearance not negative and also a progress of democratization and a process of social development. Korea passed the process of democratic transition and consolidation with success. Nonetheless Korean democracy needs quality upgrade or improvement. Korea democracy is still immature (unskilled) to deal with conflicts. One of intra-national conflicts which Korea society has faced is ``South-South conflict.`` This conflict has divided South Korea society and threatened Korea democracy. My question is which are important reasons of this conflict which is not working as an engine of democracy but deepening and fueling social division which hinder the development of Korea democracy. The level and the strength of bipolarization of mutually repellent forces are becoming wide and deep. The game of South-South conflict is like a zero-sum game. Reasons of South-South conflict proliferation are two. First is the overlapping of conflicts (ideology, regionalism, and generation) and second is expansive reproduction, especially by media power (conservative newspaper Chaebol) and conservative civil society. In this paper, I will investigate and analyze two reasons more specifically. After that, I will try to suggest some positive ways (consociational democracy, deliberative democracy, and creation of counter-hegemony) to settle this conflict. These ways will be helpful to unify Korean people, to make Korean Society stable and Korean democracy more workable and more developed, and to enhance South-North Korea relation, ultimately uniting divided South-North Korea.

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