ABSTRACT
Inspired by the nonviolent student demonstrations occurring throughout the South, students attending a civil rights conference in April 1960 decided to create a national committee to link the various student groups agitating for civil rights. One massive demonstration in June 1967 united those agitating for student rights, those fighting the state’s international policies, and those protesting against Iranian persecution of political dissidents, but it also ended up galvanizing student opposition throughout Germany. The students’ antigovernment protests intensified, and in 1966 the government retaliated by sending troops against students agitating at state universities. Syngman Rhee fled the country, and students closely monitored South Korea’s legislature, which began forming the structure for the nation’s new Republic. Once the new government seized control of South Korea, it immediately banned student groups and organizations and arrested and imprisoned all but the most conservative leaders of student groups, allowing only apolitical student government associations to exist.
