The South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement: A Roundtable Discussion on the Past, Present and Future of Social Movements in South Korea

February 17, 2022

Through a roundtable discussion on the Candlelight Protest Movement (2016-2017), this event investigates the possibilities and grounds for transformative politics and the conditions for and limits of revolutionary change in a democracy. Drawing from their essays in the Journal of Asian Studies Forum “South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement” (forthcoming in Feb-March 2022), Jennifer Jihye Chun, Ju Hui Judy Han, Albert L. Park and Hyun Ok Park, in particular, share their views on the Candlelight Protest Movement and the present and future course of political change and social transformation in South Korea.