Crack in the Taegeukgi : Symbolisation of Nationalism and the Changes in the State-System in Korea
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Focusing on the popular usage of the national flag in South Korea, this study aims to investigate the relationship between informal nationalism and the formal order of the state in Korea. Historically, from its legal adoption as an official symbol and its proliferation into society, South Korea’s national flag, Taegeukgui, has experienced changes in its meaning. It has been used for varied purposes: legitimising the military and developmental state, mobilising the democratic resistance against the authoritarian state, commercialising the national image in the market, and rehabilitating neo-conservative forces. Based on the methodology of discursive institutionalism, the author attempts to elucidate that this historically constructed hegemonic taken-for-grantedness of the national symbols gets broken when certain political groups use them to emphasise their exclusive meaning in a symbol. This study highlights that as those groups explicitly use the national symbols to legitimise their political opinion, they implicitly show the crisis of the state-system order, which they believe in as a legitimate agency of the nation. This implication will be helpful in a broader understanding of the similar usage of the national flags recently arising around the world in right-wing populist rallies.
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Focusing on the popular usage of the national flag in South Korea, this study aims to investigate the relationship between informal nationalism and the formal order of the state in Korea. Historically, from its legal adoption as an official symbol and its proliferation into society, South Korea’s national flag, Taegeukgui, has experienced changes in its meaning. It has been used for varied purposes: legitimising the military and developmental state, mobilising the democratic resistance against the authoritarian state, commercialising the national image in the market, and rehabilitating neo-conservative forces. Based on the methodology of discursive institutionalism, the author attempts to elucidate that this historically constructed hegemonic taken-for-grantedness of the national symbols gets broken when certain political groups use them to emphasise their exclusive meaning in a symbol. This study highlights that as those groups explicitly use the national symbols to legitimise their political opinion, they implicitly show the crisis of the state-system order, which they believe in as a legitimate agency of the nation. This implication will be helpful in a broader understanding of the similar usage of the national flags recently arising around the world in right-wing populist rallies.
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