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Box 1

 Container

Contains 43 Results:

Korean democratization & human rights movements in the United States, 1977 - 2014, bulk: 1980 - 1997

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes folders relating to democratization and human rights movement of Korea. The topics include campaigns for the release of prisoners of conscience, movements against fingerprinting of Koreans in Japan, and the Kwangju (Gwangju) Uprising of 1980.

Dates: 1977 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1997

[Political prisoner Cho Sang-nok 조상록's petition to the Constitutional Court of Korea], 1998

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes the petition of Cho Sang-nok 조상록, a political prisoner in Andong, to the Constitutions Court of Korea. He spent 21 years in prison after being falsely accused of espionage by the military dictatorship in Korea.

Dates: 1998

日本件 일본건 [Human rights of Koreans in Japan], 1985 - 1988

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence, and other documents regarding human rights of Koreans in Japan.

Dates: 1985 - 1988

N.Y. 木曜祈禱会 (목요기도회), 1980 - 1986

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes pamphlets, correspondence, and other documents of the New York Thursday Prayer Group. It also contains writings entitled "기독교와 공산주의", "Monthly Review of Korean Affairs - three years of Chun Doo Whan", "Kim Dae Jung lives as the 'Aquino' of South Korea", and "America's moral indignation shouldn't be selective".

Dates: 1980 - 1986

L.A. 木曜祈禱会 (목요기도회), 1985 - 1986

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes newspaper clippings, writings, periodicals, and other documents on the topics of democratic movements in Korea, Dae-jung Kim [Kim Dae Jung, 김대중, Kim Tae-jung], Doo-hwan Chun [Chun Doo Hwan, 전두환, Chon Tu-hwan], military dictatorship, direct presidential election system, democratic constitutional amendment, and the case of the Rev. Ko Young-geun[고영근, Ko Yong-gun].

Dates: 1985 - 1986

木曜祈禱会 第一回~ 42回 (목요기도회 제1회-42회), LA, 1985 - 1990

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Includes documents of LA Thursday Prayer Group meetings nos. 1-42, with information about the lecturers, meeting schedules, and scores of music.

Dates: 1985 - 1990

民主化운동史 (민주화운동사), 1985 - 1998

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents Includes newspaper clippings about pastor Yu Yong-mo (유영모), Ham Sok-hon (함석헌), and Yi Hae-dong (이해동); unification movements of overseas Koreans; expatriots' conference for Peace, Unification and Korean Democracy in the Korean Peninsula; Kim Kun-tae (김근태)'s prison message and the records of the fourth trial; Jubilee News (한반도 통일 희년을 위한 소식지); a copy of 1981 interview of the Rev. Moon Ik-hwan (문익환 목사); 인권소식 - 제일교회 테러사건; the petition of Jung-soon Choi (최정순 Choe Chong-sun) for her tortured...
Dates: 1985 - 1998

L.A. 光州 (광주) 15[주년] 오월 문화제 1995年, 1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Includes assortment of documents related to the May Cultural Festival to Celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Gwangju Democratic Resistance (나성오월문화제). Includes an income and expenditure report, pamphlets, list of attendees, and preparatory meeting materials.

Dates: 1995

편지 Copy 民主化 (민주화) [copy of Kim Dae Jung 김대중's correspondence, and other materials], 1983 - 2000

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence mostly from Kim Dae Jung (김대중) on human rights and political situations in Korea. It also contains some newspaper clippings on topics of human rights and reunification of Korea, and pamphlets of the Jubilee Prayer Partners for Reunification of Korea.

Dates: 1983 - 2000

[List of signatures appealing for release of the prioners of conscience]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Inlcudes signatures of supporters for the pardoning of the prisoners of conscience.

Dates: 1977 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1997