Generation and Protest Participation in South Korea(2022. 12)
- Author : Hyun-Jin Cha
- Publication : Comparative Democratic Studies
- Publisher : Inje Institute of Democracy and Autonomy
- Volume : 18(2)
- Date : December 2022
Abstract: This study aims to analyze the characteristics of Korean protest participants from 2004 to 2018. This paper especially examines whether generational attributions are reflected in Korean protestors, focusing on age cohorts born at a similar period. To be specific, this research argues that generations who have experienced crucial political or economic events such as June uprising in 1987 or IMF economic crisis in 1998 at impressionable year are more likely to participate in protest than other generations. As a result of empirical analysis through 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2018 Korea General Social Survey(KGSS) data, this paper examines an effect of age on protest participation in Korea is due to not age effects but cohort effects. This research contributes the influence of generation on protest participation, a type of non-institutional political participation, pointing out that existing literature on generation only focuses on institutional political participation such as voting behaviors.