Coincidentally, the publication of two important books on youth culture and political activism in South Korea occurred within months of the onset and denouement of the protest movement now known as the 2016–2017 Candlelight Revolution. The timing of the books’ publication, which carried a sense of remarkable serendipity, was by no means the result of their being rushed into production. On the contrary, both book projects represent longterm endeavors over a decade in the making. Igniting the Internet: Youth and Activism in Postauthoritarian South Korea, by communications scholar Jiyeon Kang, examines how epic-scale candlelight demonstrations became a familiar activist repertoire as “Internet-born youth-driven mass protests” since 2002. Historian Charles R. Kim’s Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea explores the context and discourses surrounding an earlier Review Article

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Longue Durée 中的韩国青年激进主义

巧合的是，两本关于韩国青年文化和政治激进主义的重要书籍的出版发生在现在被称为 2016-2017 烛光革命的抗议运动开始和结束后的几个月内。这本书的出版时间给人一种非凡的意外之感，绝不是匆忙投产的结果。相反，这两本书项目都代表了十多年来的长期努力。点燃互联网：后威权主义韩国的青年和激进主义，传播学者 Jiyeon Kang 研究了自 2002 年以来，史诗般规模的烛光示威如何成为“互联网出生的青年驱动的大规模抗议活动”的熟悉的激进分子曲目。 历史学家 Charles R. Kim 的青年国家：