The World - News from May 16, 1986
South Korean students demonstrated against the government on at least 30 campuses nationwide. In Seoul, they battled police with gasoline bombs and stones on at least four campuses, witnesses reported. At Yonsei University near downtown Seoul, witnesses said the students hurled more than 150 gasoline bombs. There were no immediate reports of arrests or injuries. Many of the protests were held to commemorate the anniversary of a four-day uprising in 1980, in the southern city of Kwangju.
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