BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Soh Jaipil Lecture Series: Seeds of Mobilization X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260905T180539Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_47667259397061 DTSTART:20241018T150000Z DTEND:20241018T163000Z DESCRIPTION:Join the GW Institute for Korean Studies for our next installme nt of our Soh Jaipil Lecture Series\, featuring Joan Cho from Wesleyan Uni versity. Professor Cho will present on her book entitled\, Seeds of Mobili zation: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea’s Democracy.\n\n \n\nSout h Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory\, a test ament to how economic development leads to democracy. Seeds of Mobilizatio n: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy (University of Michi gan Press\, 2024) takes a closer look at the history of South Korea to sho w that Korea’s advance to democracy was not linear. Instead\, while Kore a’s national economy grew dramatically under the regimes of Park Chung H ee (1961–79) and Chun Doo Hwan (1980–88)\, the political system first became increasingly authoritarian. Because modernization was founded on in dustrial complexes and tertiary\neducation\, these structures initially he lped bolster the authoritarian regimes. In the long run\, however\, these structures later facilitated the anti-regime protests by various social mo vement groups—most importantly\, workers and students—that ultimately brought democracy to the country. By using original subnational protest ev ent datasets\, government publications\, oral interviews\, and publication s from labor and student movement organizations\, Seeds of Mobilization sh ows how socioeconomic development did not create a steady pressure toward democracy but acted as a “double-edged sword” that initially stabilize d autocratic regimes before destabilizing them over time. The book also re veals how the nonlinear path from economic development to democracy has le d to enduring differences in political attitudes and behavior across gener ations\, shaped by their distinct experiences of economic growth and autho ritarianism. GEO:38.896188;-77.044206 LOCATION:1957 E Street NW\, Room B17 SUMMARY:Soh Jaipil Lecture Series: Seeds of Mobilization URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/sjp-lecture-series-seeds-of-mo bilization CATEGORIES:Lectures & Speakers END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR