Candidate Seo Wook’s Thesis Expresses ‘5/16 Revolution’ … Explaining “Enrollment Errors”

Army Chief of Staff Wook Seo appointed new Secretary of Defense 2020.7.28 / News 1

Candidate Seo-wook was found to use the expression ‘5/16 revolution’ several times in his doctoral thesis in 2015.

In response, the candidate explained that it was a “simple description error” and that the expression “5 · 16 hit” was also mixed up in the same document.

Candidate Seo presented the ‘Korea Occupational Control Redemption Policy and Alliance Model: Comparison between the Roh Tae-Woo and Roh Moo-Hyun Governments’ in June 2015, while attending the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy in the Graduate School of Kyungnam University.

Regarding the thesis, the candidates are “using some Korean troops to seize power without the permission of the UN commander in the process of the Korean army that started the May 16 Revolution” (p. 15) and “Some units due to the May 16 Revolution during the Park Chung-hee administration. ” The military policy of 5 · 16 was marked as “revolution” on two occasions, including the redemption of operational control and “(p. 17).

Neither phrase is a glorification of military affairs, but it is pointed out that the expression of the ‘5 · 16 revolution’ itself may be a problem.

In candidate Seo’s thesis, expressions such as ‘5 · 16 military coup’ and ‘military coup’ appear eight times.

Candidate Seo said: “It is a simple mistake to write revolution 5 · 16 in the thesis. I will be careful when I use the term in the future.” “The military amendment 5 · 16 is a final military amendment and I agree with the Supreme Court ruling that defined it as a coup.” Said.

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