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This is a case study of the contentious relationship between a religious landlord (Beopjusa)and the temple’s tenants in the process of land reform in the Republic of Korea in 1950s. The conflict ended with the victory of Beopjusa. Our analysis borrowed a part of Coleman’s macromicro-macro model and adopted the relational approach by McAdam et al. We used not only historical documents but also the records of our interviews with tenant farmers who were still alive at the time (1998-1999) of our interviews. Our analysis focuses on how macro phenomena such as the historical and cultural setting, social political changes, and the Korean War influenced the direction of the conflict. More specifically the analysis focuses on the interrelationships among four actors (the State, the Buddhist national organization, Beopjusa,and the tenant farmers) and shows why the tenant farmers were unable to make collective resistance against the expropriation of the redistributed land.
