This article traces the evolutionary process of the changes of the concept of sovereignty in Korean Student movements from 1960`s to 1980`s. Korean Student`s concept of sovereignty had been drastically changed from 1983 compared to the concept of sove...
This article traces the evolutionary process of the changes of the concept of sovereignty in Korean Student movements from 1960`s to 1980`s. Korean Student`s concept of sovereignty had been drastically changed from 1983 compared to the concept of sovereignty right before 1983. U.S. foreign policy, especially nuclear weapon strategy under New Cold War Policy provided the students and intellectuals in Korean society the main motive to change the concept of sovereign right. Korean intellectuals including university students thought that US policy would cause the calamity of nuclear war to the Korean peninsula ignoring the nation`s will. Before 1983, Most of Korean students interpreted sovereignty as independence of R.O. K. After 1983, the concept of sovereignty had been revised into sovereign right of nation, including North and South Korean. But National Liberation(NL) Student Movement group failed to cope efficiently with expanding `Interdependence sovereignty` in Korean peninsula. That was because the NL group had accepted Ju-Chae(主體) ideology chasing `Westphalian sovereignty` as a guiding principle of National Liberation revolution.