110 Cultural Post #8

[Jimin Yoo]

As i was interested in learning more deeply into Korean politics, I would like to share a political culture in Korea. According to Gabriel A. Almond, he stated that "It is a set of attitudes, beliefs, and orientations of the people towards the political system" in his thesis. He was also the first person to brought up an idea about political culture. The characteristics of political culture are that every political system has distinct political culture, that it is a part of general culture and that it influences political system. It also falls into four different categories which are parochial, subject and participant. I see four problematic characteristics from Korea's political culture which are alienation, resistance, formalism and regionalism.