The Revolution of Light

South Korean Citizens Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize: The Revolution of Light

A Historic Nomination for the People of Korea

This is absolutely INCREDIBLE news! ๐Ÿ†โœจ The citizens of South Korea have been officially nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their extraordinary role in stopping the martial law crisis of December 2024. Eminent political scientists from around the world submitted the nomination to the Norwegian Nobel Committee this January, recognizing the Korean publicโ€™s โ€œcitizen collectiveโ€ as a force that defended democracy without a single drop of blood spilled!

์ •๋ง ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์†Œ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๐Ÿ†โœจ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด 2024๋…„ 12์›” ๊ณ„์—„ ์‚ฌํƒœ๋ฅผ ์ €์ง€ํ•œ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์—ญํ• ์„ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›์•„ ๋…ธ๋ฒจํ‰ํ™”์ƒ ํ›„๋ณด๋กœ ๊ณต์‹ ์ถ”์ฒœ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์ •์น˜ํ•™์ž๋“ค์ด ์˜ฌํ•ด 1์›” ๋…ธ๋ฅด์›จ์ด ๋…ธ๋ฒจ์œ„์›ํšŒ์— ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ โ€˜์‹œ๋ฏผ ์ง‘ํ•ฉ์ฒดโ€™๋ฅผ ํ›„๋ณด๋กœ ์ถ”์ฒœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์šธ์˜ ํ”ผ๋„ ํ˜๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ์ง€์ผœ๋‚ธ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ํž˜์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

The Revolution of Light

Who Made the Nomination?

The story behind this nomination is amazing! ๐Ÿ“œ โ€œKim Eui-young,โ€ a professor at Seoul National University, along with four renowned international scholars, submitted the nomination. The group includes โ€œPablo Oรฑateโ€ from University of Valencia, โ€œDavid Farrellโ€ from University College Dublin, and โ€œAzul A. Aguiar Aguilarโ€ from the Jesuit University of Guadalajara. These are all current or former leaders of major international political science organizations!

์ด ์ถ”์ฒœ์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด ์ •๋ง ๋Œ€๋‹จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๐Ÿ“œ ์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต โ€œ๊น€์˜์˜โ€ ๊ต์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋น„๋กฏํ•ด ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ €๋ช…ํ•œ 4๋ช…์˜ ํ•™์ž๋“ค์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ถ”์ฒœ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐœ๋ Œ์‹œ์•„๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์˜ โ€œํŒŒ๋ธ”๋กœ ์˜ค๋ƒํ…Œโ€ ๊ต์ˆ˜, ๋”๋ธ”๋ฆฐ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์˜ โ€œ๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ ํŒจ๋Ÿดโ€ ๊ต์ˆ˜, ๊ณผ๋‹ฌ๋ผํ•˜๋ผ ์˜ˆ์ˆ˜ํšŒ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์˜ โ€œ์•„์ˆ  A. ์•„๊ธฐ์•„๋ฅด ์•„๊ธธ๋ผ๋ฅดโ€ ๊ต์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ตญ์ œ ์ •์น˜ํ•™ํšŒ์˜ ํ˜„์ง ๋˜๋Š” ์ „์ง ์˜์žฅ๊ธ‰ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

The โ€œRevolution of Lightโ€ That Inspired the World

The nominators described the Korean publicโ€™s efforts as a โ€œRevolution of Lightโ€! ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ This symbolic name refers to the millions of citizens who peacefully took to the streets waving light sticks, providing a global model for defending democracy. The nomination emphasized that Korea faced a serious constitutional crisis from an illegal exercise of emergency powers, but restored order through the rule of law, citizen participation, and non-violence.

์ถ”์ฒœ์ธ๋“ค์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ โ€œ๋น›์˜ ํ˜๋ช…โ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ‘œํ˜„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ ์ด ์ƒ์ง•์ ์ธ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ์‘์›๋ด‰์„ ํ”๋“ค๋ฉฐ ํ‰ํ™”๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋‚˜์„  ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ์ถ”์ฒœ์„œ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ด ๋ถˆ๋ฒ•์ ์ธ ๋น„์ƒ๊ถŒ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋กœ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ํ—Œ๋ฒ• ์œ„๊ธฐ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ฒ•์น˜, ์‹œ๋ฏผ ์ฐธ์—ฌ, ๋น„ํญ๋ ฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์งˆ์„œ๋ฅผ ํšŒ๋ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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President Leeโ€™s Vision: Seoul as Democracyโ€™s New Symbol

President โ€œLee Jae-myungโ€ has been a vocal supporter of this movement! ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท At the IPSA world congress in Seoul last July, he declared: โ€œWhen I was a child, the symbol of democracy was Athens in Greece, but I want the people of the world to know that a new paradigm for definite democracy is starting in Seoul.โ€ On the first anniversary of the crisis, he also stated his certainty that Korean citizens are qualified for the Nobel Peace Prize.

โ€œ์ด์žฌ๋ช…โ€ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ์ด ์šด๋™์˜ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์ง€์ง€์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ์ง€๋‚œ 7์›” ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฐ IPSA ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€ํšŒ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” โ€œ์–ด๋ฆด ๋•Œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์•„ํ…Œ๋„ค์˜€์ง€๋งŒ, ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํŒจ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค์ž„์ด ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ์„ ์–ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„์—„ ์‚ฌํƒœ 1์ฃผ๋…„์„ ๋งž์•„ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ๋…ธ๋ฒจํ‰ํ™”์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ž๊ฒฉ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํžˆ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

How the Nomination Came Together

The idea actually started with โ€œLee Sung-hoon,โ€ an adjunct professor at Sungkonghoe University. ๐Ÿ’ก Initially, there were discussions about nominating specific organizations, but to ensure objectivity, they decided to nominate ALL citizens who participated in the revolution of light. Professor Kim prepared a roughly 30-page English document explaining the historical context and international significance of the movement.

์ด ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋Š” ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์„ฑ๊ณตํšŒ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ๊ฒธ์ž„๊ต์ˆ˜ โ€œ์ด์„ฑํ›ˆโ€ ๋‹˜์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ’ก ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๋‹จ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•˜๋Š” ๋…ผ์˜๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด โ€˜๋น›์˜ ํ˜๋ช…โ€™์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‹œ๋ฏผ์„ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊น€์˜์˜ ๊ต์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ด ์šด๋™์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๋งฅ๋ฝ๊ณผ ๊ตญ์ œ์  ์˜์˜๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ์•ฝ 30ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ๋ถ„๋Ÿ‰์˜ ์˜๋ฌธ ์„ค๋ช…์„œ๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜์—ฌ ๋…ธ๋ฒจ์œ„์›ํšŒ์— ์ œ์ถœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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What Happens Next?

The timeline is set! ๐Ÿ“… The Norwegian Nobel Committee accepted nominations through January 31. Candidates will be selected and announced in early March. After expert analysis and deliberation, the final awardee will be announced in October. Whether or not Koreaโ€™s citizens ultimately win, this nomination alone is a powerful global recognition of what ordinary people can achieve when they stand together for democracy! ๐Ÿ’œ

์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ์ผ์ •์ด ์ •ํ•ด์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๐Ÿ“… ๋…ธ๋ฅด์›จ์ด ๋…ธ๋ฒจ์œ„์›ํšŒ๋Š” 1์›” 31์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ›„๋ณด ์ถ”์ฒœ์„ ์ ‘์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ›„๋ณด์ž ๋ชฉ๋ก์€ 3์›” ์ดˆ์— ์„ ์ • ๋ฐ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดํ›„ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„์„๊ณผ ์‹ฌ์˜๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ 10์›”์— ์ตœ์ข… ์ˆ˜์ƒ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ์ตœ์ข… ์ˆ˜์ƒ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์™€ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด, ์ด ์ถ”์ฒœ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผ์–ด์„ค ๋•Œ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ด๋ฃฐ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์— ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ธ์ •์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๐Ÿ’œ