Comment: Waiting for Korea’s ‘New Mutants’


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  • Sunday, 02 Aug 2020

Voting power: Korea's youth – or the New Mutants as the writer calls them – can remake the image of the nation with a fresh new imagination and principles of decency, rationality, and a dose of common sense that contemporary politicians seriously lack. — The Korea Herald/ANN

IN 1964, Leslie Fiedler, a distinguished American literary critic, announced the advent of the Age of the New Mutants. In his monumental essay, “The New Mutants, ” Fielder envisioned the American youth of the 1960s as new mutants who cut off their attachments to mainstream culture and created a new image of America marked by diversity and multiplicity.

Indeed, these “New Mutants” of counterculture radically altered the conservative terrain of American society and remade the image of America with their liberal imagination.

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