Industrial reform and labor backlash in South Korea: Genesis, escalation, and termination of the 1997 general strike

Asian Survey

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1142-1160

  Kim, Yong Cheol ^a  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR RELATIONS; POPULAR PROTEST; WORKING CONDITIONS;

SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 0032451967     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2645826     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Ho-Keun Song, "Working-class Politics in Reform Democracy in South Korea," Korean Journal of Population and Development 23:2 (December 1994), pp. 157-77.
2. Sidney Tarrow, Struggle, Politics, and Reform: Collective Action, Social Movements, and Cycles of Protest (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 35. For more on political opportunity structures, see, for example, "Introduction: Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Framing Process - Toward a Synthetic, Comparative Perspective on Social Movements," in Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings, eds. Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, and Mayer N. Zald (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 2-3.
3. Sidney Tarrow, Struggle, Politics, and Reform: Collective Action, Social Movements, and Cycles of Protest (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 35. For more on political opportunity structures, see, for example, "Introduction: Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Framing Process - Toward a Synthetic, Comparative Perspective on Social Movements," in Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings, eds. Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, and Mayer N. Zald (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 2-3.
4. Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 18.
5. Korea Times, December 4, 1996; and Hankyoreh (Seoul), December 4, 1996.
6. Korea Times, December 4, 1996; and Hankyoreh (Seoul), December 4, 1996.
7. Yong Cheol Kim, "State and Labor in South Korea: Coalition Analysis" (Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1994), pp. 208-09.
8. Between January 1990 and July 1991, 615 unionists associated with the KTUC were arrested. The membership size of the KTUC declined from 200,000 in 1990 to 50,000 in 1992.
9. KCTU, 1996: Saup Bogo, Jaryo Moum [1996: Business report and data collection] (Seoul: KCTU, 1997), p. 39; and FKTU, 1996 Yondo Saup Bogo [Business report of 1996] (Seoul: FKTU, 1997).
10. KCTU, 1996: Saup Bogo, Jaryo Moum [1996: Business report and data collection] (Seoul: KCTU, 1997), p. 39; and FKTU, 1996 Yondo Saup Bogo [Business report of 1996] (Seoul: FKTU, 1997).
11. Hankyoreh, January 10, 1997.
12. Weekly Hankyoreh 21, January 30, 1997, p. 38.
13. Korea Times, December 27, 1996.
14. Korea Herald, January 17, 1997.
15. The ICFTU delegates arrived at the behest of the FKTU and KCTU, which had joined the ICFTU in 1949 and 1995, respectively.
16. Weekly Chosun, January 30, 1997, p. 23.
17. Korea Herald, January 30, 1997.
18. Ibid., March 10, 1997.
19. Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, "The Challenges of Consolidation," Journal of Democracy 5:4 (October 1994), p. 13.
20. In 1997, workers' hourly compensation costs were $7.22 in Korea, $8.24 in Singapore, $5.42 in Hong Kong, and $5.89 in Taiwan. See U.S. Department of Labor, Foreign Labor Statistics (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 1998), p. 12.
21. Dong-A Ilbo, August 27, 1998.