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How South Korea’s Directors Took Their Discontent Global

Anti-Capitalist Fables

Contemporary South Korean film and television present the capitalist system that emerged following the peninsula’s war over 70 years ago as fundamentally broken, generating class divisions that cannot be penetrated through perseverance or hard work. Their message is uniform: Either we destroy it, or it destroys us.

How Memories of Struggle Spurred the Defense of South Korea’s Democracy

Defending Democracy

For many South Koreans, the martial law decree last month was a reminder of previous military coups, and for activists who pushed for reform in the 1980s, it was those painful memories and the resilience they gained from the struggle that led them to risk everything to defend Seoul’s democracy.