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Minjung
Minjung is a Korean word that combines the two hanja characters ''min'' () and ''jung'' (). ''Min'' is from ''inmin'' (), which may be translated as "the people", and ''jung'' is from ''daejung'' (), which may be translated as "the public". Thus, ''minjung'' can be translated to mean "the masses" or "the people." However, in the Korean political and cultural context, "the public" is not an adequate translation, and "the people" carries a communist connotation that makes its use dangerous in anti-communist South Korea. Nonetheless, "the people" is close to what ''minjung'' seeks to convey, both sociologically and politically. For Koreans, ''minjung'' are those who are oppressed politically, exploited economically, marginalized sociologically, despised culturally, and condemned religiously. For example, the Minjung Party founded in October 2017. Thus, the notion of ''minjung'' came to identify and inform the struggle for democracy in South Korea. That is, the term ''minjung'' wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minjung Art
Minjung art (Korean: 민중미술, romanization: ''minjung misul'') emerged during the 1980s in South Korea as part of the Minjung movement in the wake of the Gwangju Uprising (1980). Minjung artists utilized a wide array of forms, including oil painting, woodblock print, collage, photomontage, banner painting, and readymade, in order to respond to the political and social climate of the time. A number of artworks were produced for and used in protests, and thus led artists to use reproducible mediums like print. Artist collectives like Reality and Utterance and the Association of Gwangju Freedom Artists played a large role in minjung art, exemplifying the tendency of minjung art to deemphasize individual authorship and maintain a publically-minded ethos. While minjung art began to wane in the early 1990s, "post-minjung" artists took up the mantle to revisit and draw on minjung art's legacy. A number of shows both at home and abroad have sought to present and historicize minjung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |