Zu den Protesten in Südkorea, egal wogegen oder wofür, stimme ich diesem wikipedia-Artikel zu:
"Korea's protest culture
Frequent demonstrations are a routine part of life in South Korea, where an average of 11,000 protests take place a year. Such protests, have become a tolerated and accepted, if not universally embraced part of the nation's culture. Protests have their roots in the student led "pro-democracy" and "pro-reunification" movements of the 1980s, and actually grew in frequency and spread throughout society after democracy was achieved. Democracy was achieved mainly due to large-scale protests in 1987. Myriad groups, including sex workers, now regularly participate in street protests in Korea. Larger scale protests are often violent, with protesters frequently coming armed with steel pipes or sharpened bamboo poles. At times, protests have taken on more extreme forms, including self-immolation, and on one notorious occasion, the public dismemberment of a live pig.
Fashions in protest have also evolved, with candlelight vigils becoming widely popular in 2002 after two girls died in an accident involving US soldiers. Candlelight vigils would thereafter take on uniquely Korean characteristics, and would be held for any occasion, rather than those specifically memorializing the dead. Candelight vigils have been held for reasons as varied as protesting Roh Moo-Hyun's impeachment in 2004, to a myriad of other political causes.
Technically, at that time, any protest held at night is against the law in Korea. However, after the protests, the constitutional court decided that the law is unconstitutional."
In diesem Artikel fehlt meines Erachtens nur mehr der geschichtliche Hintergrund zu den Abläufen der Proteste:
Suche mal im Web unter "stone battles" oder "stone fights" oder "seokjeon" und "Korea" ...
(zB: http://10magazine.asia/2011/01/pyongyang-stone-battles/ )
"Korea's protest culture
Frequent demonstrations are a routine part of life in South Korea, where an average of 11,000 protests take place a year. Such protests, have become a tolerated and accepted, if not universally embraced part of the nation's culture. Protests have their roots in the student led "pro-democracy" and "pro-reunification" movements of the 1980s, and actually grew in frequency and spread throughout society after democracy was achieved. Democracy was achieved mainly due to large-scale protests in 1987. Myriad groups, including sex workers, now regularly participate in street protests in Korea. Larger scale protests are often violent, with protesters frequently coming armed with steel pipes or sharpened bamboo poles. At times, protests have taken on more extreme forms, including self-immolation, and on one notorious occasion, the public dismemberment of a live pig.
Fashions in protest have also evolved, with candlelight vigils becoming widely popular in 2002 after two girls died in an accident involving US soldiers. Candlelight vigils would thereafter take on uniquely Korean characteristics, and would be held for any occasion, rather than those specifically memorializing the dead. Candelight vigils have been held for reasons as varied as protesting Roh Moo-Hyun's impeachment in 2004, to a myriad of other political causes.
Technically, at that time, any protest held at night is against the law in Korea. However, after the protests, the constitutional court decided that the law is unconstitutional."
In diesem Artikel fehlt meines Erachtens nur mehr der geschichtliche Hintergrund zu den Abläufen der Proteste:
Suche mal im Web unter "stone battles" oder "stone fights" oder "seokjeon" und "Korea" ...
(zB: http://10magazine.asia/2011/01/pyongyang-stone-battles/ )