New Community Movement .281970s.29 Misin tapa undong



in 1970s president park chung-hee initiated new community movement (saemaul undong), mass mobilisation intended transform rural society in both form , spirit.


under reform banner, formal movement destroy worship of gods (misin tapa undong), or anti-superstition movement translated, started. official encouragement, police , local leader suppressed gut rites , local cults.


the movement s agents poured gasoline on village shrines , torched them, destroyed sacred trees, totem poles, , cairns, raided gut , arrested shamans. contemporary commentors criticise movement having damaged sinist tradition , having caused of south korean population adopt foreign christian religion.








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