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...night of March 13, tens of thousands of protesters gathered outside the National Assembly for a candlelight vigil. "From now on we have to fight even harder for Roh," says Kim Yong Seok, a member of Nosamo, an organization of Roh's most loyal backers. In Seoul's glitzy Myongdong district, even opposition supporters were put off by the political mess. Businessman Kang Jin Woo says he voted for the GNP during the 2002 presidential race, but is disgusted by its latest maneuver. "It's too hasty, too early to judge Roh," he snaps, sipping beer...
Surprising, perhaps, for the fast-growing modern center of a booming economy. But then Seoul might be best described as high-tech with a human face. Computerized machines give out bus information in the shopping center of Myongdong -- only to be obscured by a million people passing through the narrow streets in a carnival crush each day. Commuters march through the shiny, streamlined passageways of the city hall subway station at rush hour, serenaded by the psychedelic frenzy of the Doors singing Light My Fire. Even the demonstrations that have become the city's most celebrated feature abroad are stylized...
...vote of confidence after next September's Olympic Games in Seoul and to step down if he lost the plebiscite. Pressing his theme of national reconciliation, he prayed with Buddhist monks and met with Presbyterian leaders. Roh delayed a meeting with Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou Hwan at Seoul's Myongdong Cathedral, where a band of students was demonstrating against the election. He worked hard to keep his campaign image of the ordinary man, urging a delegation of garbage collectors to call him Mister instead of the customary Your Excellency. But his ultimate sacrifice may have been giving up the traditional...
...been following the South Korean crisis closely in the hope that Washington can somehow help bring it to an end. Among other statements last week, the State Department counseled against any attempt to forcibly dislodge a group of 500 students who took refuge in Seoul's Myongdong Roman Catholic Cathedral. The protesters eventually left of their own accord. Secretary of State George Shultz, who was attending an ASEAN foreign ministers' conference in Singapore, declared, "Our advice is somehow to resume the process of dialogue between the government and the opposition so that a method of establishing a democratic tradition...
Student-led demonstrators in Seoul battled police in the most widespread protests in years. Waving Korean flags and chanting "Down with dictatorship!," one group beat police outside the huge Shinsegye department store. At the Roman Catholic Myongdong Cathedral in the heart of the city, protesters built barricades and hurled fire bombs at police, who advanced behind volleys of tear...