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- <text id=91TT1066>
- <title>
- May 20, 1991: World Notes:South Korea
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 20, 1991 Five Who Could Be Vice President
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- SOUTH KOREA
- Flames of Protest
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Spring brings South Korean students into the streets as surely
- as it brings blossoms to the trees. But this year's rallies have
- turned into a virtual siege against the centrist coalition
- government of President Roh Tae Woo.
- </p>
- <p> Last week, after five protesters immolated themselves, the
- authorities began investigating whether an "underground
- organization" was behind the burnings. Sogang University
- president Park Hong, who was tortured and jailed under previous
- administrations, fears that professional agitators intent on
- ousting the government may be persuading young people to kill
- themselves. "They're using dead bodies for political reasons,"
- he says, "and that's stupid and wrong." Yet many college
- students insist that suicide is an acceptable method of dissent.
- "Most of us have thought of doing it," says a Korea University
- student who describes himself as a moderate. "It's the only way
- to get this administration to resign."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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