Mun Jeong-hyeon

Rev. Bartholomew Mun Jeong Hyeon (, born c. 1941)

Role in the democratization movement Mun was an active participant in the 5.18 Democratization Movement, a popular uprising against President Chun Doo-hwan based primarily in the city of Gwangju. During the 1970s, Mun attended protests and founded the Catholic Priests' Organization for Justice in response to the government's killing of pro-democracy protesters. In 1976, he was jailed along with future president Kim Dae-jung.

Mun also spent several years as a leader of the Daechuri Protests, a resistance movement in opposition to the expansion of Camp Humphreys, a U.S. Army garrison. The expansion tripled the base in size and forced a number of residents from their home villages. Two years later, Mun acknowledged that it had become physically impossible to continue to block the expansion site—which was then guarded by South Korean soldiers and concertina wire—but maintained his belief that the activists' cause was "just" and that the U.S. military would someday have to leave South Korea.

Mun moved to Gangjeong Village, Seogwipo City, Jeju Province, in 2011 to live in solidarity with protesters against the construction of an ROK Naval base, which in his opinion will also be a U.S. Naval base in some way.