Democracy development of the South Korean


Democracy development of the South Korean


The evolution of democracy in South Korea experienced a wave of the development process, from simply introduced western style democracy, the authoritarian leadership stages, to the essence of democratic transition. The people in Southern Korea deals with the democratic political development in an experienced of two transformations, three stage, and to explore the framework of democracy, authoritarianism, cultural integration, civil society and so on in the process of impact and significance.


The government of the Republic of Korea was formally established in December of 1948, the United Nations recognized by the South Korean government said, "The Republic of Korea was established in the area to supervise elections on the legitimate government." At the beginning of the establishment of the government, in order to maintain the smooth operation of the government. South Korea is with reference to the United States, the establishment of legislative, judicial and administrative separation of the three powers of republican government, by Congress to exercise legislative power, the court in the exercise of judicial power, the exercise of administrative power. The national management system is known as the "Presidential Center system."


Although early to set up the framework of the democratic political system, and in the twenty or thirty years created a remarkable economic miracle, but South Korea on the road to political democratization and modernization has experienced challenges and difficulties, through a unique way of political development.


From 1948 to the establishment of the 1987 constitution of the sixth Republic, the Republic of Korea has experienced six stages marked by 5 times the mass of the constitutional amendment. They were named the Republic of Korea first of the sixth Republic, during two important political transformations respectively in the Park Chung Hee, leader of the Third Republic Period and the leaders of the Roh Tae-woo the sixth Republic period. The first transformation is 1961 authoritarian regime replaced the fragile democratic political system; the second transition is 1987 authoritarian system was replaced by the new democratic political system.


It can be said that the people's Republic of Korea after for up to 40 years of exploration and struggle, after entering the eighties of the twentieth century, finally succeeded in promoting the political transformation, established a relatively full democracy and constitutional system, peaceful completion of the reform of political democratization, created the miracle of the Republic of Korea.


To answer the question of how the democracy and anti-democracy people got to work together, the entire process takes a lean way of building the civilization process by establishing democracy and then break it by violent force to finally convey the anti-democracy people about the advantage of democracy to finally come to a stage that both parties agree that democracy is the only way out for the people in South Korea.