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Continuity of the military governments? : From the Park Chun-hee government to the Chun Doo-hwan government

Japanese (日本語)

国際協力論集

20(2/3)

105-127

神戸大学大学院国際協力研究科

2013-01

2013-05-24

This paper analyzes how the Chun Doo-hwan government grasped political hegemony after the coup on May 17, 1980, through the formulation of the new ruling party, the Democratic Justice Party(DJP). It shows that there are three stages in this process and explains how the new military government effectively used the political resources of the previous regime. In the first stage, the Chun Doo-hwan government tried to highlight its differences from the previous government, the Park Chun-hee government. In this process, they welcomed one of the most influential opposition leaders of the 1970s, Yi Jae-hyung, as the leader of the new ruling party, which means that they tried to use the political resources of the opposition to have fresh image of the new ruling party. Other opposition politicians were also invited for the party. In contrast, the members of the old ruling party, the Democratic Republic Party (DRP), were not appointed to important positions. However, this strategy clearly had limitations, because such old opposition members could not have enough popularity to win the coming general election. They were regarded as traitors of the oppositions and no longer had a strong influence in the society. Hence, in the second stage, the Chun Doo-hwan government started to recruit the old ruling party members, and the old opposition members were gradually forced into marginal positions. However, after the general election, the positions of such members from the old ruling party were weakened, because the Korean National party, another party that was formed by members of the old ruling party, severely lost at the election, and members of the old ruling party had no option to surrender to DJP. Therefore, after the general election, the third stage started, wherein members from the military strongly grasped the hegemony of the party. In conclusion, although the Chun Doo-hwan government was sometimes regarded as a simple extension of the military government of the Park Chun-hee regime, they attempted, through trial and error, to change the image of their new regime, mobilizing the political resources not only of the old ruling party, but also of the opposition parties.

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