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Word: yonsei (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last week the students finally went too far. Angry because Seoul's Yonsei University had fired three professors and expelled leaders of a student strike, a thousand screaming collegians marched on the homes of the university's acting president and board chairman-both Americans-and reduced their possessions to kindling. At that, for the first time since the revolt against Rhee, Seoul's police were issued tear gas and guns with blank cartridges, and told to use them. Wading in, the cops hauled 200 ringleaders off to jail. Later, when younger students at Kangmoon High School, infected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: The Old College Try | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

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