I organized a panel that explores how the meanings and practices of belonging and social movement have been reassembled and rearticulated in contemporary South Korea and the Korean diaspora. Our collective question concerns the ways different social actors navigate an ongoing crisis of the global capitalist, heteropatriarchal, environmental, and postcolonial present. Specifically, how do the increasing forms of precarity produced by this crisis call for a rearticulation of belonging as a legal and cultural membership? What are the intersections and limits of interchangeability among each perspective? Drawing from approaches in performance studies, cultural anthropology, and ethnic studies, this interdisciplinary panel contributes to expanding the critical dialogue in Korean studies at large. Based on rich ethnographic research conducted in South Korea, Canada, and the United States, the papers illustrate possible tensions and the challenged isomorphism among identity, justice, and hierarchical (and oppressive) nationhood. Topics include: online activist work on transgender visibility and care by a transgender couple and their allies in gender affirming healthcare (Lee); environmental activism addressing the colonial dichotomies between the land and the island in Jeju (Shin); Korean diaspora’s support for the families of the Sewol Ferry disaster victims and identity reformation (Jeong); and undocumented Korean immigrant youth activism for abolitionist future (Chung). Each panelist analyzes the dynamic relations of the components of belonging–law, culture, and rights–and how they intersect with other markers such as gender, sexuality, class, and legal status.