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<text id=89TT1275>
<title>
May 15, 1989: World Notes:South Korea
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 15, 1989 Waiting For Washington
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 51
World Notes
SOUTH KOREA
Disaster at Dongeui
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<p> The negotiations had dragged on all night at Pusan's
Dongeui University, but by dawn the 100 students on the seventh
floor of the school library still refused to free the five
policemen they held hostage. When 20 policemen tried to break
into the room, the captors tossed fire bombs at a hallway
barricade that they had soaked with kerosene and paint thinner.
The raiders were not lucky: six policemen died, and ten were
seriously injured.
</p>
<p> The police soon freed their five colleagues and arrested 94
students, but the incident shocked South Koreans. Despite
almost daily clashes with student demonstrators, until last week
only two policemen and two students had died since the country
announced democratic reforms in 1987. Though the list of student
grievances has changed over the years, one demand has not: the
overthrow of the government.
</p>
<p> The Dongeui University incident may give new thrust to
conservative demands for a clampdown on antigovernment
activities. At the least, the deaths have forced Koreans to
re-examine how their budding democracy is faring. In a rare
front-page editorial, the moderate daily newspaper Chosun Ilbo
exhorted, "We can no longer let things go this way. The current
disorder in society seems to be accelerating a doomsday for the
nation."
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