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[wylies99]

Institute owner arrested for protests
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2894388

September 02, 2008
Police yesterday decided to seek a warrant to further detain the 48-year-old president of an educational institute, identified only by the surname Na, on charges of leading dozens of unlawful political protests and throwing stones at police.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced yesterday that they arrested Na early Sunday in Jongno District when he was illegally occupying downtown streets with six other demonstrators during an anti-government rally.

Police said that over the past few months, Na has organized 40 protests in central Seoul separately from the main rally organizer, the People�s Conference Against Mad Cow Disease, including a May 24 protest with 200 participants near Gwanghwamun.

Na is also suspected of throwing stones into a group of police near Myeongdong Cathedral on Aug. 17, police said.

According to police officers, Na has left about 400 posts on Agora, the nation�s largest online forum. His goal was to encourage people, in particular �the 386 generation,� Koreans who were born in the 1960s and attended college in the 1980s, to appear at the protests against the government�s resumption of imports of U.S. beef and its decision to fire former KBS chief Jung Yun-joo.

In the 1980s, many 386ers joined pro-democracy student demonstrations across the country when Korea was under military rule.

�He admitted posting the date and time of protests on the Internet to lead protests,� said a police officer who asked not to be named. �His purpose is to have President Lee Myung-bak impeached.�

He has also promoted the establishment of a militant protest group, police said, consisting of 386ers and former members of a special commando corps, in an effort to keep up the anti-Lee protests.

�A former student activist, Na is now a radical protester,� said the officer. �He also urged other protesters to participate in the boycott campaign against firms advertising in the nation�s three major conservative newspapers: the JoongAng Ilbo, Chosun Ilbo, and Dong-A Ilbo.�

The reaction on the Internet to Na�s arrest has been mixed. Some said that they will issue a manifesto, claiming such a leader is needed to keep the government in check.

Others said that as an educator teaching young students, his actions are unacceptable and deserve to be punished.



By Park Sang-woo Staff Reporter [[email protected]]

[wylies99]

Wonder who slaves away at this clown's hogwan.

[Tjames426]

Na Na Na Na

Na Na Na Na

Hey Hey Hey

Goodbye!

[crusher_of_heads]

The previous post was completely childish.


Thank you!


I would encourage ALL Hogwan owners not to break anymore laws, whether it be organising portests, or labour laws.

[garykasparov]

[wylies99]

[jvalmer]

[Yesterday]

[garykasparov]

wylies99 is anti-hagwon, and that is nothing new. If wylies99 wasn't anti-hagwon he wouldn't have posted the article. This thread will turn into a hagwon bashing session whereas wylies99 will gripe about pension, taxes, and medical. All points are really useless and you have the chance of a lifetime to jump on the "wylies99 bandwagon."

[OnTheOtherSide]

I work at a hagwon and i'm a professional. When I play the animal game and hangman, it is pure skill that only a highly educated man like myself could pull off. And when the kids punch my ass crack as hard as they can, throw pencils out of the high rise window onto a busy street, and spit on the floor, that is just a wonderful bonus. Viva la hagwon.