Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the short-term and long-term causes of the candlelight demonstrations and the ensuing presidential impeachment in South Korea, as well as the characteristics of the organization that planned the candlelight demonstrations and the participants of them. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on the previous literature, news articles, as well as various surveys on the randomly selected participants of the demonstrations and on a representative sample of Korean electorate, including non-participants as well. Findings The candlelight demonstrations, although “triggered” by a news report, would not have occurred, without angers and discontents accumulated over the president’s whole term by the irregularities and wrongdoings of the administration. The system of checks and balances in democratic system did not work properly. In that regard, the candlelight demonstrations and the ensuing presidential impeachment were just an unanticipated expression of the problems and defects built in the Korean democratic system of 1987, which would have found a way out in any form eventually. Originality/value Based on the analysis of the candlelight demonstrations and the ensuing presidential impeachment, the paper suggests instructive implications on a new democracy as well as on modern representative democracies that are in jeopardy now.

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烛光游行示威和韩国总统弹imp

目的本文的目的是介绍和分析烛光游行示威的短期和长期原因，以及随后在韩国进行的总统弹,，以及计划烛光游行示威的组织的特征和参加者他们。设计/方法/方法这项研究是基于先前的文献，新闻报道以及对随机选择的示威参与者以及韩国选民的代表性样本（包括非参与者）进行的各种调查得出的。调查结果烛光游行示威虽然被新闻报道“触发”，但如果没有因总统的不当行为和不当行为在整个总统任期内累积的愤怒和不满，就不会发生。民主制度中的制衡制度没有正常运作。在这方面，烛光示威和随之而来的总统弹each只是对1987年朝鲜民主制度所建立的问题和缺陷的意想不到的表达，而这些问题和缺陷最终将以任何形式找到出路。独创性/价值在对烛光示威和随之而来的总统弹each进行分析的基础上，本文提出了对新民主制以及目前处于危险之中的现代代议制民主的指导意义。最终将以任何形式找到出路。独创性/价值在对烛光示威和随之而来的总统弹each进行分析的基础上，本文提出了对新民主制以及目前处于危险之中的现代代议制民主的指导意义。最终将以任何形式找到出路。独创性/价值在对烛光示威和随之而来的总统弹each进行分析的基础上，本文提出了对新民主制以及目前处于危险之中的现代代议制民主的指导意义。