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“Exclude, Exploit, Eliminate: Anti-Vagrancy In Authoritarian-Era South Korea”
By Jack Greenberg

TRANSACTIONS 
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY KOREA 
Volume 98 – 2024 (PDF)

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For information about Seongam Academy and its historical context, please see the article in the Transactions: Royal Asiatic Society Korea PDF linked above:

Exclude, Exploit, Eliminate: Anti-Vagrancy In Authoritarian-Era South Korea
By Jack Greenberg
See Page 122

“The state’s approach to stamping out vagrancy became more muscular and aggressive following Park Chung-hee’s May 16 military coup in 1961. Within days of taking power, the Minister of Health and Social Affairs explicitly identified the elimination of begging and vagrancy as an immediate portfolio priority. 15 Three major incidents of human rights violations involving vagrants overlap with the Park Chunghee regime: Seongam Academy, Seosan Pioneer Group, and Brothers Welfare Home. I will discuss each of these cases in turn.”
(Page 135).

“It was easy for the Brothers Welfare Home to use and abuse the labour of its inmates with the tightening of anti-vagrant measures beginning under Park Chung-hee’s Yusin regime and continuing through Chun Doo-hwan’s rule. After Park bestowed himself with dictatorial powers in a self-coup, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued an extraconstitutional edict known as ‘Ordinance No. 410.’ on December 15, 1975. 76 This set out vague guidelines concerning the management and confinement of vagrants and gave law enforcement authorities unconstitutional powers to sweep the streets and haul anyone believed to be a vagrant into custody without due process or warrant. In this context, a consignment contract was signed between Busan City and the Brothers Welfare Home on July 25, 1975, to accommodate those subject to Ordinance No. 410. 77 Under the conditions of the contract, the city procured land and supplied generous subsidies that allowed the Brothers Welfare Home to move to larger premises from its original location. 78”
(Page 145).