As police gunfire echoed in central Seoul, our school, close to the Gwanghwamun intersection, suspended classes but only escorted students were allowed to flee. “When their names were called out through the classroom speaker, my friends left one by one,” my classmate wrote. “The following year, about a month into the first semester, our homeroom teacher didn’t appear for the morning assembly. Our teacher had my friend accompany him when he went to see a hospitalised student, and later attend her funeral. She didn’t know what repercussions her family would face if it was known that her father was in North Korea.

Source: The Star August 08, 2021 00:28 UTC