kossda-korea social science data archive

Abstract

This dataset is a part of the documents collected by the May 18 Institute at Chonnam National University related to the democratic movement, centering upon the May 18 Gwangju Uprising, between 1960s and 2000. The documents were collected not only to promote scholarly research but also to contribute to the advancement of democracy and human rights in Korea. The Institute has collected a variety of qualitative data as public statements, pamphlets, meeting minutes, journal articles, monographs, photographs, and video files. Most documents came from the democratic movement activists and faculties affiliated with Chonnam National University as well as from the citizens of Gwangju.
This dataset consists of statements (Statement I to Statement 7) and a White Paper on Unfair Conscription of Democratic Student Activists composed by the Resolution Committee for the Problem of Military Service. The statements and the paper were written in order to petition against the unfair conscription of the students who had been released from three years of imprisonment after the alleged violation of the Emergency Measure 9 in 1975. The conscription was claimed to be unfair as the military service law at the time exempted from active sertvice those who had been sentenced to six months or more of imprisonment. Included in the Statements are the demands on the repeal of the conscription, the White Paper contains the summaries on unfair conscription situation and the major issues of the event. Also the White Paper includes the daily records between Feb 2 and Jun 27 and adds the appendix containing news of arrested students.

Keywords

military conscription The Fourth Republic Yushin regime pro-democracy movement democratic movement student movement

Subjects

Participation/ Civil society

Citation

A White Paper and Statements on the Unfair Conscription of Students, 1979 [Dataset]. 전남대학교 5.18 연구소 [Producers]. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) [Distributors], 2008-03-26, https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-B1-1979-0001-V1.0.

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