Montag | 13.00 Uhr | The 2022 Presidential Election in South Korea: The Politics of Resentment and Revenge Confirms Older Trends and Cleavages and Reveals New Ones Dr. Youngmi Kim (Department of Asian Studies, The University of Edinburgh, UK) Yoon Suk Yeol, the candidate of the People Power Party (PPP), won South Korea’s 20th presidential election on March 9, 2022 after a highly personalized and acrimonious electoral campaign whose outcome remained unpredictable until the very end. Yoon won by a mere 0.73 percent margin with 48.56 percent of the total votes. The election confirmed long-term trends prevalent in South Korea, such as the personalization of politics and intra-party factionalism, as well as the centrality of pre-electoral coalitions. Most notably, the decision of third candidate Ahn Cheol-soo, leader of the People Party (PP), to withdraw his candidacy and announce support for Yoon and a coalition between their two parties likely tilted the balance in Yoon’s favor. In addition, gender, generation, and class—new cleavages which have emerged in the past couple of decades—are replacing older political cleavages centered around region and ideology. Streaming / Video URL https://heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/zmta-7tur-3nkr-xnzt Veranstalter Prof. Dr. Anja Senz, Institut für Sinologie Homepage Veranstalter https://ostasien-aktuell.uni-heidelberg.de Kontakt Kontakt URL https://ostasien-aktuell.uni-heidelberg.de Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Vortragsreihe Ostasien Aktuell': Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2022, 18.00 Uhr Chinas Volkswirtschaft im Krisenmodus: Neuorientierung in turbulenten Zeiten Prof. Markus Taube (IN-EAST Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen) Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2023, 18.00 Uhr Ethnic Borderland: The Un/Homeliness of Korean Chinese in Yanbian China Dr. June Hee Kwon (Asian Studies, California State University, Sacramento, US) Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2023, 18.00 Uhr Zur (Un)Sachlichkeit in politischen Debatten über China Dr. Thomas Arnold (Philosophisches Seminar, Heidelberg University) und Prof. Anja Senz (Centre for East Asian Studies, Heidelberg University) Mittwoch, 01. Februar 2023, 18.00 Uhr The Restraining Belt: Physical Infrastructure as China’s Means of Territorial Control Assoc. Prof. Dr. Konstantinas Andrijauskas, Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania) Montag, 06. Februar 2023, 13.00 Uhr The 2022 Presidential Election in South Korea: The Politics of Resentment and Revenge Confirms Older Trends and Cleavages and Reveals New Ones Dr. Youngmi Kim (Department of Asian Studies, The University of Edinburgh, UK) |