ABSTRACT
Following the collapse of military regimes in 1987, Korean society witnessed the popularization of the concept of “civil society,” and the vocabularies of “civic movements” or nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have since gained familiarity. In addition, civil society, during the time, found itself to sprout alongside capitalist industrialization, the formation of urban middle class, and growth of media in Korea. However, it is widely recognized that it was democratization that caused the flowering of civil society in Korea, not vice versa.
