Song you-yul

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 송두율 / 송두 률
Hanja 宋 斗 律
Revised
Romanization 		Song you-yul
McCune-
Reischauer 		Song Tuyul

Song Du-yul (born October 12, 1944 in Tokyo , Japan ) is a German-Korean sociologist and adjunct professor at the University of Münster . He works for an understanding and rapprochement between North and South Korea .

Training and work

Song Du-yul was born in Tokyo to Korean parents. In 1967 he graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in philosophy and came to Germany to study . In 1972 he did his doctorate in Frankfurt under Jürgen Habermas on Hegel and Max Weber 's view of Asia . Later he took up the "system-immanent research approach" of Peter Christian Ludz . After his habilitation in 1982 he became professor of sociology at the University of Münster and also taught in Berlin , Heidelberg and Stockholm .

Political activity

In the 1960s, Song Du-yul turned against the military dictatorship under Park Chung-hee in South Korea. He began to analyze North Korea using the "systemic research approach" and traveled this state frequently.

Song Du-yul has been a German citizen since 1993.

Since 1995 he has organized several conferences in Beijing , in which scientists from North and South Korea participated.

On September 23, 2003, he traveled to South Korea for the first time in 37 years to give lectures and to receive an honorary doctorate from Chonnam University in Gwangju . On arrival, Song was arrested immediately. The government of Roh Moo-hyun has made reconciliation with the North on its flags, but the draconian laws from the time of the military dictatorship, which prohibit all contact with North Korea and the demand for a reunification of North and South Korea, are still in today Force.

According to media reports, he was held in pretrial detention in a solitary cell without a chair or bed, without heating or air conditioning and with lights around the clock. The indictment was withheld from him until the trial began, and Song initially had no access to a lawyer.

The South Korean secret service accused him of having been a member of the Labor Party of Korea since the 1970s and, most recently, a member of the Politburo, for which no evidence was presented in court. In April 2004, he was sentenced to seven years in prison under the National Security Act of 1948, which goes directly back to the security laws of the former Japanese colonial rule.

South Korean television showed recordings of songs attending Kim Il-sung's funeral in 1994.

Jürgen Habermas, Günter Grass and other German intellectuals as well as Amnesty International campaigned for his release.

Song was released on July 21, 2004 after the Seoul Supreme Court suspended his sentence. At the beginning of August 2004 he returned to Germany.

Fonts

Books
  • The meaning of the Asian world in Hegel, Marx and Max Weber. Dissertation, University of Frankfurt am Main, 1972. Book trade edition: Enlightenment and emancipation: The importance of the Asian world in Hegel, Marx and Max Weber. Express, Berlin 1988.
  • (Ed.) Growth, Dictatorship and Ideology in Korea. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1980.
  • Soviet Union and China: Equalization and Differentiation in Socialism. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1984 (habilitation thesis, University of Münster, 1981).
  • Metamorphoses of Modernity: Considerations of a Border Crosser between Asia and Europe. Litter, Münster 1990.
  • Korea Kaleidoscope: Current Contexts on Reunification. Secolo, Osnabrück 1995.
  • Shades of Modernity: East-West Dialogues in Philosophy, Sociology, and Politics. PapyRossa, Cologne 2002.
  • (Ed. With Hyondok Choe, Rainer Werning ) Where is North Korea heading? Social conditions, development tendencies, perspectives. PapyRossa, Cologne 2004.
  • (with Rainer Werning) Korea: From a colony to a divided country. Promedia, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85371-340-2 .
Articles and lectures
  • South Korea: in the footsteps of the Japanese? KOFO, Offenbach am Main 1984.
  • Politics and society in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) KOFO, Offenbach am Main 1984.
  • Is Japan a model for Germany? Schiller, Berlin 1985.
  • On the archeology of postmodernism: Encounter between Orient and Occident. East Asia Institute of the FUB, Berlin 1988.
  • Capitalism, Social Movements, and Social Formation in South Korea: A Critical Review. Litter, Münster 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile song Du-yul on the homepage of the University of Münster
  2. ↑ See statement on the sentencing of Prof. Du-Yul Song from May 2004.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Song is the family name here, Du-yul is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Song, you-yul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 송두율 (Korean, Hangeul); 宋 斗 律 (Korean, Hanja)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean-German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo , Japan