Word: yonsei
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid shouts of "Let's regain our national identity!" some 13,000 student protesters massed at Yonsei University in downtown Seoul last week. Their goal: to accompany an unofficial 13-member delegation to the "truce village" of Panmunjom, 30 miles away, in the Demilitarized Zone. There a matching delegation of 13 from Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the Communist North Korean capital, waited to hold "reunification talks...
...sincerest wish is for Lee Han Yol to become the last person to die violently for the cause of democracy in our country." So said Opposition Leader Kim Young Sam last week following the death of the Yonsei University sophomore in Seoul. Lee, 20, had remained in a coma for 27 days after he was struck in the head by a pepper-gas canister during the demonstrations that jolted South Korea for three weeks last month. As the sole death among the tens of thousands of protesters who took to the street, Lee became an instant martyr to the revolt...
...funeral, which included half a dozen speakers and prayers offered by Buddhist and Christian clergymen, began solemnly on Thursday morning inside Yonsei's leafy campus in western Seoul. At the end of the service, pallbearers hoisted the victim's coffin, draped in a South Korean flag, and carried it on their shoulders in a mass procession leading to the city hall...
...Yonsei University in Seoul, the country's capital and largest city, a column of more than 2,000 students waved red, white and green flags painted with revolutionary slogans as they sang We Shall Overcome in Korean. A ceremony marking the university's 102nd anniversary exploded into a riot as some 1,000 students vented their rage over a police raid earlier in the day that resulted in the arrest of 36 hunger strikers. At the municipal stadium a victory march by 3,500 students from Kyung Hee University to celebrate their baseball team's championship turned into a political...
...John J. Moakley, D-Mass., delivered the keynote address, and physicist Se Hee Ahn, president of Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, received an honorary degree...