Jieun Pyun | A new “Seoul Spring”

Jieun Pyun, manager for the Human Freedom Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute, wrote about the recent protests in South Korea, her home country, in the wake of the corruption charges surrounding the now impeached President Park Geun-hye and her administration. Pyun calls the wave of protests a new “Seoul Spring.”

“The past four months revitalized Koreans’ engagement in the democratic process,” Pyun wrote. “Young people who were indifferent towards politics learned about their parents’ sacrifices for democracy and wanted to become more involved.”

Read Pyun’s essay here.