General information on South Korea = 2
1. Korean history in outline = 3
2. Preliminary remarks = 4
3.The long road to democracy = 6
3.1 The National Human Rights Commission = 9
3.2 Coming to terms with the past I = 11
3.3 Setting up a Truth Commission = 12
4.The consequences of the country’s division = 15
4.1 The division in the context of human rights = 16
4.2 Conscientious objection to military service = 18
4.3 Campaign for the revision of the SOFA Agreement = 19
4.4 Coming to terms with the past II = 21
4.4.1 Setting up of a government commission to investigate the events of 3 April 1948 on Cheju Island = 21
4.4.2 Initiative to discover the truth about massacres of the civilian population during the Korean War(1950-53) = 22
5. Globalization of the economy = 23
5.1 Formation of trade unions and industrial action = 23
5.2 Immigrants treated as second-class workers = 25
6. South Korea as a multireligious society = 26
6.1 South Korean Churches for Democracy and Human Rights = 28
6.2 The changed role of the church in the overall social process of democratization = 30
7. Footnotes = 31
1. Korean history in outline = 3
2. Preliminary remarks = 4
3.The long road to democracy = 6
3.1 The National Human Rights Commission = 9
3.2 Coming to terms with the past I = 11
3.3 Setting up a Truth Commission = 12
4.The consequences of the country’s division = 15
4.1 The division in the context of human rights = 16
4.2 Conscientious objection to military service = 18
4.3 Campaign for the revision of the SOFA Agreement = 19
4.4 Coming to terms with the past II = 21
4.4.1 Setting up of a government commission to investigate the events of 3 April 1948 on Cheju Island = 21
4.4.2 Initiative to discover the truth about massacres of the civilian population during the Korean War(1950-53) = 22
5. Globalization of the economy = 23
5.1 Formation of trade unions and industrial action = 23
5.2 Immigrants treated as second-class workers = 25
6. South Korea as a multireligious society = 26
6.1 South Korean Churches for Democracy and Human Rights = 28
6.2 The changed role of the church in the overall social process of democratization = 30
7. Footnotes = 31