Abstract

Abstract:

During the early years of South Korea’s transition to democracy, expanding popular rule and deepening individual rights went hand-in-hand. But with Roh Moo Hyun’s narrow election to the presidency on 19 December 2002, the democratic transition that South Korea began in 1987 entered a profoundly new era. The presidency has exposed rifts between majority rule and constitutionalism that the country’s judiciary is struggling to bridge.

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