ABSTRACT
The number of civil society groups around the world has grown enormously since the end of the Cold War. Before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, approximately 24,904 international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) were operating worldwide (Union of International Associations 2002). Their number rapidly increased following the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1994, and by the end of 1999 one could find 43,958 INGOs working across traditional sovereign boundaries (ibid.). The situation in South Korea (hereafter Korea) illustrates this trend on the local level. Before its 1987 democratic movement, Korea had 185 NGOs working within the country, by 1996 it had 610 such organizations and by 2000 it had 843, a 450 percent increase over 13 years (Table 6.1).
