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NGO that promotes gender equality and
The biggest trouble is that we lost our power and voice
participatorydemocraticsociety.
since we got the notice after the candlelight vigil.
FinancialPressures
new programs for NGOs, but he also
As a result of this incident, only 140
stopped several NGO supporting
NGOs received government subsidies
However,itisnotonlypoliticalpressure
policies,”saidParkSang-pil,aprofessor
out of 1400 organizations in Seoul.
thatNGOsface.ManyknowthatNGOs
at Sungkonghoe University’s graduate
The organizations that continue to get
have a hard time with financial affairs
school of NGO studies. NGOs play an
financialsupportfromtheadministration
becauseitisdifficulttogetfundingfrom
essential role in the community because
are mostly those that are not involved
companiesandinstitutions.Thisproblem
theyhavetokeepthingsinbalancewith
in political issues having to do with any
has been common to NGOs in many
governmentpowerandprotectindividual
protesting.
countries for some time, according to a
rightsallforthepublicinterest.However,
surveyattheWorldNGOsConferencein
NGOs faced several political obstacles
1999.However,whencomparedtoother
Pressurefromgovernments
duringthepastfiveyears.
countries, the financial problem is more
diplomaticmoves
Policies and rules that were newly
severeinKorea.
made,suchasthosementioned,signaled
Afterthecandlelightvigil
After the candlelight vigil against the
the NGOs’ uphill struggle. The political
[ProportionofNGOsubsidiestoGNP]
resumptionofU.Sbeefimportsin2008,
atmosphere that could be felt by the
NGOs faced their first political barrier.
government’s international strategies
United
HUFS
0.7%
Kingdom
This protest is recalled by many as the
alsoputpressureonseveralNGOs.This
/
You-me
“madcowdiseasecandlelightvigil,”and
wasespeciallythecaseforgroupsthatin
as the start of the pressure on NGOs.
any fashion supported North Korea. For
Germany
0.27%
Won
After the vigil, which almost all of the
example, an NGO that did not wish to
NGOs in Korea participated in, NGOs
revealitsnametothepublicwasinitially
Netherlands
0.8%
received a notice from the government
founded to exchange culture with North
saying that they were not allowed
Korea. However from 2008 they had
to do any kind of antigovernment
to change their activities to exchanging
Korea
0.02%
demonstrations from then on. If the
cultures worldwide. This change
organizations did not send back their
happenedbecauseformerPresidentLee’s
written pledge or accept the notice, they
administration was not on good terms
Comparison between European
would be excluded from the Ministry
with North Korea. The tension between
governmentsandtheKoreangovernment
of Public Administration and Security’s
the two countries worsened and the
in percentage of NGO support in
NGO list. Being on the list of the
implicitpressuremadeitdifficultforthe
proportion to GNP is drastic, as it can
Ministry of Public Administration and
NGO to continue its programs related
be seen in the graph above. The graph
Securityhassignificantmeaningforany
to North Korea. Even the organization’s
shows that the Netherlands financially
NGO because it means that the NGO is
former name that was focused on North
supports approximately 40 times more
providedasubsidyfromthegovernment
Korea had to be changed to one that
for NGOs than the Korean government
and is recognized as an active NGO.
means‘theworldtogether.’
does.
Those NGOs that did not accept the
Political constraints on NGOs were
notice,thegovernmenttookmeasuresto
not recognized easily. “The biggest
Reviseddonationregulations
halt the subsidies that were supposed to
trouble we have is that we lost our
Several explanations can be given for
beprovidedtothem.Itwasthenthatthe
power and voice since the day we got
thishugegap.ThenoticeNGOsreceived
government’s budget for NGO subsidies
the notice after the candlelight vigil.
after the candlelight vigil against the
droppedfrom10billionwonto5billion
Having been excluded from the subsidy
resumption of U.S beef imports is one
won.Thischangeisconsideredtobethe
list and interest from the government,
reason. “The Act on the Regulation of
work of the administration to stop the
it is more difficult to plan and continue
Donation Collections”, a regulation that
criticizingandanti-governmentactivities
our activities,” said a staff member
restricts illegal collecting of donations
ofNGOs.
at Korean Women Link, which is an
andunlawfuluseofcollecteddonations,
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