Democratization and museum policy in South Korea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12340010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sohyun Park (0000-0003-4719-6920, Department of Digital & Cultural Policy, Graduate School of Public Policy and Information Technology, Seoul National University of Science & Technology, Seoul, Korea), So-Hyun Park (0000-0001-5622-2954, Seoul National University of Science and Technology), Hang Kim (Yonsei University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-109 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1028-6632 • E-ISSN: 1477-2833 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10286632.2018.1557650 |
| OpenAlex | W2914535341 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article examines the two distinct historical policy paths taken by the South Korean government in the late twentieth century towards the democratization of museums. One was based on the creation of a museological public sphere as an extension of the political democratization movement of the 1980s. This demonstrated the potential to become a valuable component of the wider incipient national public sphere within which civic subjects could discuss their individual and collective historical memories. However, despite this potential, a museological public sphere failed to influence the general trajectory of national policy regarding the democratization of museums that had been in development since the early 1980s. This other policy path towards cultural democratization was triggered by the award of the Seoul Olympics in 1981. It was based on public participation and entitled the ‘cultural Olympics’. An important strategy of the cultural Olympics was the construction of a new institutional infrastructure to expand the public right to enjoy culture. This path facilitated an increasing entanglement with neoliberalism in 1990s. Finally, the 1997 IMF crisis furthered the association between a superficial idea of democratization through institutional expansion and the practices of neoliberalism, a trend which continues within South Korean museum policy today
Democracy · Democratization · Government (linguistics · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Public sphere · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |