Abstract:

This study analyzes the framing of protests against the Korea–United States Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA), arguably one of the most significant and contentious contemporary movement events that occurred in South Korea. The anti-KORUS FTA protests have drawn the largest public, committed to challenging the hegemonic rhetoric of the Korean government's neoliberal policy initiatives, by asserting the trade deal as posing various social and economic ills to human life. Drawing on the combined framework of Gramscian analysis and the framing perspective, this study highlights the ways in which the anti-KORUS FTA protest activism exercises power by disseminating alternative discourse against the existing political condition. By examining a broad range of data, the study identifies three specific counter-hegemonic framings of collective action used by local civil society organizations to delegitimize the official discourse—'neoliberalism as the problem,' 'public accountability,' and 'national independence.'

摘要：

本研究分析了针对韩美自由贸易协定（KORUS FTA）的抗议活动，这可以说是韩国发生的最重要和最具争议的当代运动事件之一。反韩自由贸易协定的抗议活动吸引了最大的公众，他们致力于挑战韩国政府新自由主义政策举措的霸权言论，声称该贸易协议给人类生活带来了各种社会和经济弊病。本研究借鉴葛兰西分析和框架视角的综合框架，强调了反韩自由贸易协定抗议激进主义通过传播反对现有政治状况的另类话语来行使权力的方式。通过审查广泛的数据，该研究确定了当地民间社会组织用来取消官方话语合法性的集体行动的三个具体反霸权框架——“新自由主义是问题”、“公共责任”和“国家独立”。