A coup d''état broke out in Myanmar in 2021 when its military arrested newly-elected members of the ruling party and cracked down following civilian protests with violence.Since the country gained independence in 1948,Myanmar is not able to establish a stable governing system but instead keeps suffering from political decay for decades,indicating the unhealthy involvement of the military in the realm of politics.This paper seeks to conduct a comparative study of Myanmar and South Korea,the latter of which similarly experienced decades of military dictatorship but underwent a successful transition to democracy in the late 1980s.The paper adopts the Praetorianism theory of Samuel P.Huntington to theorize the dynamics of the military rule in Myanmar and South Korea and also analyzes the differences between the cases of the two countries.In the end,the paper evaluates to what extent the lessons from South Korea can be learned by Myanmar.
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