The World - News from Dec. 3, 1985
South Korean police entered the U.S. Cultural Center in the southern city of Kwangju, scene of extensive anti-government violence in 1980, and arrested nine students who occupied the director’s office in a protest against the authoritarian government of President Chun Doo Hwan. The youths demanded a conference with the ruling party, constitutional revision and a change in U.S. economic policies toward Korea.
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