ABSTRACT
Korea is the country with the highest density population in the world, and, moreover, about 70 percent of the national land consists of mountains. The overpopulation makes Koreans sensitive and competitive to the land use and pollution. Under these conditions, civic experiences of environmental problems which capital and the state have, to a large extent, produced, have been enough to induce militant environmental movements to defend the life-world threatened. The environmental movement can be defined as a set of social reactions seeking reform or transformation of social structures and human activities producing environmental problems.
