Meaning of minjung | Babel Free

Definitions

In South Korea, peasants or working-class people.

plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“The minjung have⟳ learned to dream⟳ of a world from which oppression, conflict and suffering have⟳ been removed; a world where they are no longer the ruled, but the rulers of their own⟳ lives and destinies, and the subjects of their own⟳ history.”

“Therefore the theologians' main concern⟳ was not dealing with individual poor people but rather to do with social process⟳ and the system which prevents the minjung from coming out of their misery.”

“Jesus was minjung and the friend of the minjung, teaching forgiveness and love⟳ of enemies, but Moses was also minjung, political leader of his people against oppression.”

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