Research Article
Problems and Tasks in "Asian Solidarity Movements" of Korean Civil Society
서강대학교 동아연구소
Published: January 2011 · Vol. 60, No. 0 · pp. 5-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33334/sieas.2011.30.1.5
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Abstract
Though Korean civil society turned their international focus to ``Asian solidarity`` a decade ago, academic papers on that issue are rare. This paper tries to introduce and evaluate the problems and tasks in ``Asian solidarity movements`` of Korean civil society organizations through the method of survey results analysis, literature review, and activists interviews. The problems of Asian solidarity activities initiated by Korean civil society are defined to lack of material and human resource, lack of social attention, lack of understanding on Asia, and ethnocentrism. The tasks are summarized to pursuit of common value such as democracy and peace, activists` training, and reflection through experience-sympathy-understandings on Asia. Author reinterprets the problems and tasks, then suggests several concrete and immediate programs from the principles such like activist-first activities, public attention mobilization, local knowledge networking, comparative studies, and Korean-Asian solidarity in particular.
