Evening star., 1960-05-22
THE KOREA STORY
Continued From First Page

the high-ceilinged office of the
president Of Korea University.
whose proud hillside campus
! overlooks Seoul. 1t was the po-
lice to notify DR.. Chin o Yu
that his students were planning
. q demonstration against the
government, perhaps the next
day.
Celebration Postponed
On Saturday the students
were to have their traditional
welcoming party for freshmen.
DR.. Yu hurriedly revoked au-
thorization for those activities,
poStponing the freshmen's well
come until Monday.
Meanwhile the dean of
students met with leaders of
student bodies from the Uni
j versity's five colleges, urging
. them to take less drastic
> measures than demonstration,
which had been outlawed by
J the authorities. But the stu
(. dents were adamant, so the
I dean brought their leaders to
! see the president on Monday
! April 1S, at noon.
2 Here is DR.. Yu's story of the
subsequent events, told to me
in his slow but competent
English:
I. THE students said they
, wanted only to make peaceful
!. demonstration. ! tod them
that since demonstrations were
outlawed, they might make the
= whole university subject to in
tervention or punishment by
the government.
But the students didn't
make any answer. I tried to
calm them down for an hour,
but they went to the streets
about l pm. I stayed 1t my
Office sick at heart.
Barricades Thrown Up
"As the students left the gate
of the university and moved
westward toward the Fast Gate,
police threw up barricades at
many places along the street.
"At the first rotary there was
a concentration of resistance.
The students shouted over and
over again their demonstration
was intended to be peaceful.
Soon reports came to me by
telephone that my students
were being beaten by police
with their nightsticks. But the
students broke the police lines
and marched defantly on to the
middle Of Seoul.
"At East Gate there was an
other scuffie, another at Fourth
street and Chong Ro (the main
artery leading to the National
Assembly,.
Students were being ar
rested, and some of them,
badly beaten, were being hauled
off in police jeeps. But the main
body surged on. Finally they
reached the National. Assembly
building-and sat down.
There were two or three
thousand of them and they
filled the wide street which
passes the National Assembly
and terminates at the old
Capitol Building.
Students Shout Demands
"The students, from their
sitting position, shouted de-
mands for cancellation of the
1860 election. They asked for
the release Of their comrades
who had been arrested. They
demanded that. Vice President
Ki Poong-lee and Home Min
lister In Kyu-choi appear before
them and make apologies for
the bad election and for severe
treatment of students who had
demonstrated in other cities.
about 3 pm. I received tele-
phone calls from the Home
Minister and the Education
Minister. Both asked me tc
come out and try to calm the
students, to bring them back tt
the university. The police, they
said, were unable to disperse
the students with any peaceful
method.
81 went first to the Home
Ministry to see the vice minis
ter. I told him that if tht
police released all the students
they had arrested on the wa!
:. THEN I would do what
could do.
THE vice minister said yes
and I went to the National AS
sembly building. All transporta
tion in the street outside tn
Assembly was cut off. Their
was a crowd of about 5000 t.
5000 people surrounding m
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