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Lived Experience of Suffering for Victims of Torture : among the suspected espionage agents under the military government (고문폭력 생존자가 반추한 고문의 고통 체험 : 군사정권시대 간첩혐의 희생자를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Hyun Kyoung
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.235-274
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    • 2011

  • The purpose of this study is to understand suffering of torture for victims with suspicion of espionage under the military government in Korea by knowing meaning and structure of empirical phenomena. Methods is to applied to Phenomenological and heuristic Human Becoming Methodology, and the subjects of this study are text for three tortured victims. Results is the structure that the victims accepted their act of espionage under the torture and horror, living with retribution from heaven, surviving pressured times, and fighting for human rights upon release from prison. The conceptual integration of relationship issues were: valuing, imaging, languaging with powering and transforming under the process of revealing-concealing and enabling-limiting. Finally, discussion and practical meaning was reviewed.