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Word: yolsa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political protest. Two university students had just immolated themselves to protest the beating to death of a student demonstrator by police on April 26, but Chun, a 19-year-old sophomore at Kyungwon University, near Seoul, questioned the wisdom of adding to the growing list of martyrs, or yolsa (Korean for honorable man of justice). "We need more dedicated fighters, not more yolsa," the left-wing activist told colleagues at the campus newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: The Tale Behind a Suicide | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

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