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...Seoul National University student, Park Chong Chul, 21, suffocated in January while police were dunking his head in a bathtub during interrogation. Last week that death, and the cover-up scandal that followed it, forced President Chun Doo Hwan to shake up his Cabinet. He dumped Prime Minister Lho Shin Yong, the Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs and Chang Se Dong, head of the state security agency...
...49th day after death, according to Buddhist teaching, the souls of the dead make their journey into the next world. So it was last week that on the appointed day several thousand students gathered in the streets of Seoul to mark the final passage of Park Jong Chul, a 21-year-old student who had died during a police interrogation. What followed was more like a descent into hell...
...Philippines and South Korea, where students have protested against government repression for years. Last year alone, South Korean students held more than 1,700 demonstrations, including a rally at Kon- kuk University in October at which 1,288 students were arrested. The death last month of Park Jong Chul, a student who was killed while being tortured by police, has ensured that the protests will continue...
...This time the evidence was too overwhelming to ignore. The South Korean government has long denied it was treating political detainees brutally, but last week officials admitted to one serious case. They revealed that Park Jong Chul, 21, a Seoul National University student, had suffocated to death during water torture by police as they questioned him. The surprisingly candid disclosure followed well-publicized accusations by the doctor who had been called in to revive the youth and by Park's relatives, who had seen wounds on the body...
...System (KBS-TV). Called Searching for Separated Families, the show has reunited some 3,000 South Korean families sundered by the war. Mrs. Kim Ok Soon and her daughter came together last month. Kim Sung Soo and his mother finally found each other a few weeks ago. Huh Hyun Chul learned that his sister is alive and living in Cheju, a resort island off the southern coast. One elderly woman even found her long-lost sister seated in the same row with her at the studio. Both were going on the show in hopes of locating each other...