1990년대 학생운동의 ‘위기’와 혁신의 모색 －연세대학교 사례를 중심으로－

Abstract

This study examines how attempts were made to cope with the ‘crisis of student movement’ centered on Yonsei University in the 1990s, when the student movement was at its decline. Since the early 1990s, there has been a widespread perception that the student movement is in crisis and that alternatives are needed. This resulted from a decline in students’ interest in and participation in student councils/student movements. Amid the change in university culture, it was analyzed that the student movement could only be revitalized if the undemocratic student council was changed more democratically. Yonsei University students conducted experiments to further democratize the student council and attempted to expand the base of the student movement by conducting a more diverse sector movement instead of political struggle. However, despite these efforts, the student council’s human solidarity weakened rapidly with the implementation of the undergraduate system in 1996. Also, due to the ‘YONSEI uprising’ in August, students’ distrust of the student movement has grown irrevocably. Despite all the difficulties, the search for a new mode of movement continued, criticizing the limitations of the large coalition movement and the student council’s centrality. It was to participate in the construction of a new progressive party, or to be more inclined to sector movements, such as the struggle for educational rights.