Students in the Republic of Korea

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South Korea Bans Hanchongryon Student Movement
Two news items from the Arm The Spirit list, Wednesday 11 June 1997. S.Korea Plans Arrests To Disband Student Body. The Hanchongryon student body admitted responsibility for the torture killing of a suspected police spy. The government maintains Hanchongryon takes orders from Pyongyang. Hanchongryon Outlawed As ‘Pro-North’ Group; Government Orders Thousands Of Its Members To Quit By End Of July Or Face Prison Terms.
The Launching Ceremony Of Hanchongryeon Held At Kyunghee University
By Kim Seok-jong, Sungkyun Times, [7 June 1999]. The Hanchongryeon ceremony hasn’t been held for two years because of pressure from the government and the press. At first, this ceremony was planed to be held at Yonsei University. But students couldn’t get into Yonsei University because of the complete blockade and illegal questioning by police, so the place was changed to Kyunghee University.
Violence at Seoul protest
BBC, 31 March 2001. Students threw Molotov cocktails at police during a KCTU march on Saturday by thousands of South Koreans protesting against the government’s economic reforms.
Drop of policy to commercialize education demanded in S. Korea
Korean News, 22 December 2001. The South Korean Federation of University Student Councils protest the education authorities’ policy to commercialize [privatize] education. The national university special accounts law.
Hanchongryon in the news
Two news items, Korean News, 6 May 2002. Inaugural ceremony of 10th-term Hanchongryon held. Over 8,000 students under the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) held an inaugural ceremony of the 10th-term Hanchongryon at Seoul Industrial University. Opening of Hanchongryon May Festival called: a peaceful May festival of South Korean students to oppose the arrest and want list of Hanchongryon duputies.
Premeditated fascist repression of patriotic organization under fire
Korea News, 20 December 2003. The sentencing of Son Jun Hyok, chairman of the sixth-term South Korean federation of university student councils, for leading rallies and demonstrations and manufacturing literature benefiting the enemy. The South Korean authorities still brand the patriotic pro-reunification federation as an enemy-benefiting organization and arrest without any warrant, detain and prosecute the deputies elected by the students.