Paper Title
Political Culture and Democratization in South Korea
Abstract
The study of Political culture and democratization in South Korea aims to study the political culture that affects
democratic South Korea. This country has been much discussed in terms of countries where democracy has been developed
steadily. Since the process of democratization has started. The research was conducted according to a qualitative methodology
and the data collection was also performed according to the methodology. The data was collected with documentary study and
from documents which considered as academic literature i.e. books, articles, research papers, theses and papers on electronic
media. The research results revealed that the political culture that is open to channels of negotiation, participation, and political
monitoring are the main factors that contributed to South Korea's democratic stability. Furthermore, the dynamic factors
supporting ongoing democratization of South Korea are political leaders who have faith in democracy, the strong role of the
social movement group or civil society that pushes for special legislation in order to protect the rights of citizens to rise to
democracy, an elimination of the influence of the military from politics as well as success in economic development and social
change.
Index Terms - Democracy Democratization Political culture South Korea Politics