Fascist South Korea

Anawrahta

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From 1961-1979 and 1981-1988 South Korea was ruled by a autocratic dictators by the name Park chung-hee and chun do-hwan who were unique for being the only buddhist and most conservative presidents of south korea.
In addition to developing the country and pursuing nuclear weapons, what if they decided to look to Goryeo, Joseon, and Francoist Spain for inspiration and decided to build a Neo-Confucian state in South Korea. Park also served in the Japanese army.How would an analogue of Francoist Spain resemble?
How plausible is this? How would a Neo-Confucian Korea interact with a stalinist Korea? How about china, japan, Taiwan and USA?
Btw Park put laws restricting the length of women's skirts, so it would not a big stretch.

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Anawrahta

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From 1961-1979 and 1981-1988 South Korea was ruled by a autocratic dictators by the name Park chung-hee and chun do-hwan who were unique for being the only buddhist and most conservative presidents of south korea.
In addition to developing the country and pursuing nuclear weapons, what if they decided to look to Goryeo, Joseon, and Francoist Spain for inspiration and decided to build a Neo-Confucian state in South Korea. Park also served in the Japanese army.How would an analogue of Francoist Spain resemble?
How plausible is this? How would a Neo-Confucian Korea interact with a stalinist Korea? How about china, japan, Taiwan and USA?
Btw Park put laws restricting the length of women's skirts, so it would not a big stretch.

220px-Chun_Doo-hwan%2C_1983-March-11-02_%28cropped%29.jpg
220px-Park_Chung-hee_1963%27s.png
How plausible is a right-wing counterpart to North Korea? Could it even survive to the present day?
 
It might be doable if South Korea were smaller and weaker. Maybe an armistice is reached while the Chinese still occupy Seoul. The resulting smaller South Korea (probably with its capital in Taegu) is economically weaker and far more scared of the North. That seems like fertile ground for a fascist movement to grow in.
 
As far as I know the Korean ideology of ilmenism that was the official ideology of the Three dictatorship was a blatant toned down copy of fascism, but some Koreans users denied that.

Let me call a expert. @Korean
 

Anawrahta

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As far as I know the Korean ideology of ilmenism that was the official ideology of the Three dictatorship was a blatant toned down copy of fascism, but some Koreans users denied that.

Let me call a expert. @Korean
Could you give me a source on Ilmenism. Sounds interesting even though google showed up nothing.
 

Anawrahta

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It might be doable if South Korea were smaller and weaker. Maybe an armistice is reached while the Chinese still occupy Seoul. The resulting smaller South Korea (probably with its capital in Taegu) is economically weaker and far more scared of the North. That seems like fertile ground for a fascist movement to grow in.
A capital at Daegu? That sounds depressing.
 
For the Marxist account of fascism as a reaction to a worker’s movement, I’ve always read South Korean government as fascist. Such a reading obviously includes Horthy, Salazar, Pinochet etc.
 
Okay, I think there are some misconceptions in regard to South Korea and the era of Military dictatorships. South Korea was never a fascist state. It was an authoritarian dictatorship that needed to make efforts to present itself as a democracy as it depended on American support and aid. Unlike the banana republics of Latin America, the United States had more influence over the ROK as South Korea needed American military support to prevent an attack by the North. Although various ROK Presidents were able to successfully take advantage of the US/ROK alliance.

In regard to South Korea. The military dictatorships were already somewhat a Confucian state. Confucianism was used to justify the military dictatorships. A South Korea under the American orbit is very unlikely to become a fascist state. Considering that South Korea military regimes never completely outlawed other political parties as that would anger the Americans.
 
Could you give me a source on Ilmenism. Sounds interesting even though google showed up nothing.

I committed a typo somewhere, since I remember googling it and finding many answers... Oh, and I meant Rhee dictatorship, not Three dictatorship, it was the first one under Sygman Rhee.
 
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