Revolutionary Presents: Making Histories of Decolonial Democracy

The conclusion outlines challenges that arise from historicizing the minjung art movement after its demise in the 1990s and the new millennium. As a way of leaning into the future, the chapter addresses the core dilemma of the minjung art movement: the coexistence of the powerful force of national thinking with a decolonial agenda and the equally powerful limitation of a national framework. Articulating the germination of feminist thinking and practices in the minjung art movement by offering a brief genealogy of yŏsŏng art (art for women’s liberation), the chapter probes that yŏsŏng art is both a part and a critique of the minjung art movement. The question of gender is still pertinent in drawing contours of possible routes for a decolonial historicization of the minjung art movement.