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A Modern Yu Kwan-soon Is Reborn 1,000 Times

Choe Sang-hun frames the story of the anti-US beef protests for a Western audience in the IHT. Choe’s tale includes a modern version of high schooler Yu Kwan-soon’s leading role in the March 1, 1919 movement:
And the police investigating who organized the country’s biggest antigovernment protests in two decades ended up rummaging in cyberspace. [...]