Ha Ki-rak

Ha Ki-Rak (Korean: 하기락; 1912–1997) was a professor and major figure in Korean anarchism.

Biography

The political life of Ha Ki-Rak, a Korean anarcho-pacifist academic, writer, and philosopher, began in 1929, when he participated in student demonstrations in Kwangju, pre-dating the mass student demonstrations in 1980 by 51 years.

While a student at Waseda University in Japan, during the Japanese occupation of Korea, Ha Ki-Rak was an anti-imperialist activist and joined the Tokyo Dong-hung No-dong Dong-meng (Workers' League of Tokyo).

After the liberation from Japan in 1945, he helped form the first Korean anarchist organization, Ja-yoo sa-hoi kun-sul-ja yun-meng (League of Free Social Constructors), authoring its founding declaration and political program.

In 1946, when Korean anarchists returning from exile held a meeting at Kum-gang-sa in Kyung-sang Province, Ha Ki-Rak edited their journal, Ja-yu yun-hap (Libertarian Federation), and afterwards participated in the unified organization they decided to create in order to rebuild the country, the Dok-lip no-nong-dang (Independent Workers and Farmers Party).[1]

In 1972, he founded the Han-kuk ja-ju-in yun-meng (Korean Anarchist Federation) in Seoul. In 1978, he published A History of the Korean Anarchist Movement.[2] In 1987, he took part in the congress of the Korean Anarchist Federation, which was established by Korean anarchists Lee Jung-Kyu and Lee Eul-Kyu. In 1995, two years before his death, he was a leading organizer of the World Peace Conference in Seoul.[3][4]

References
  1. Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt, ed. (2010). Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940: The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution. Amsterdam: Brill Publishers. pp. lxiii, 403, 409. ISBN 978-9004188-49-5.
  2. A History of the Korean Anarchist Movement.
  3. Oh, Jang-Whan. "Ha Ki-Rak (1912–1997)". Blackwell Reference Online. Blackwell Publishing Inc. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  4. Ness, Immanuel. The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest.


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