Comparative Analysis of East Asian Democratic Movement: Kwangju June Uprising of South Korea and Tiananmen Democratic Movement of China

Democratic movement of South Korea and Tiananmen democratic movement of China are different in the nature of systems, the contents of democratic movement and the development process. In terms of each movement’s significance in each country and in the East Asia’s democratization process, both movement of South Korea and China ahve great areal value beyond each individual country. Considering these differences, the goal of this paper is providing theoretical suggestion for democratization and concrete date for future, especially focused on continuation and stability, of each country’s democratization as well as East Asia’s democratization by the comparison of two country’s democratization process. 1