Students gathered inside the Inchon Memorial Hall. Photographed by Kim Seung Hyun

By Lee Jeong Min (cosmos0330@korea.ac.kr)

Currently, Korea University (KU) students are protesting in front of the Inchon Memorial Hall because the school employees are preventing the students from entering the Inchon Memorial Hall, in which a KU General Affairs Committee Meeting discussing the issue of Future College (Crimson College) is scheduled to be held from 2:00 P.M.

KU has closed down the doors to the Inchon Memorial Hall with a firm barricade and school employees have pushed away Park Se Hoon, the president of KU Student Association, who has made several attempts to enter the Hall.

The time and the location of the meeting had been kept a secret and the public opinion was that the school refused to release information fearing that the students may make attempts to stop the meeting. Many have accused school faculty of attempting to clandestinely pass the Future College plans, and suspect that the barricade is a way of assuring that the plans are passed.

Dozens of students are currently outside the hall, and the KUSA is calling for more students to join in the event. The stalemate between the students and the school faculty has now escalated to a veritable skirmish, with the latter physically resisting the students’ advances. Despite the faculty resorting to physical violence and shouting expletives, however, the students are gradually inching closer to the Hall entrance. More students are joining the fray as KUSA continues to urge active participation on social networks. 

Update: The students have successfully breached the Memorial Hall, and have mafe their way to room 201 where the meeting is taking place. In spite of the vociferous opposition from the students, the faculty are still continuing the meeting, refusing to take heed of the students' wishes.

출처 : 고려대학교 고파스 2024-04-28 22:05:59: