[5] However, as the government suppressed democratic protests and the "Seoul Spring" fell in the 1980s to the rise of military general Chun Doo-hwan's reign, the influx of Juche ideology occurred.
[6] A book written by Kim Young-hwan [ko] called "The Letter of One Labor Activist Sending to All Our Fellow Young Students" (한 노동운동가가 청년 학생들에게 보내는 편지) with the pseudonym "Kang Chol" (강철), also known as "kangcholsoshin" (강철서신, Kang cheol's letter), was considered as the textbook of the movement among participants.
[8][a][9] After the fall of the Soviet Union, the death of Kim Il Sung and the news reports of famines in North Korea in 1995, the movement faced a subsequent decline.
[6][8] However, in 1994, Park Hong, who was the president of Sogang University at the time, held a press conference claiming North Korea was running a terrorist organization in schools citing jusapas and sanomaeng (South Korean Socialist Workers' Alliance) as examples, which renewed interest in the movement.
[10] The statement was made in the context of incidents of students being arrested for making a place to mourn the death of Kim Il Sung.