1987.

I was twelve years old when I first saw this painting of a bleeding college student, Lee Han-yeol. Too young to comprehend what was going on then, all I remembered about the occasion in 1987 was pretty much only this painting. They say memories have a tendency of being encarved as images, they may be true of this case. Periodically organized details of the incident and stories of young social activists, now most of them being big shots in Korean politics, are fascinating to read, particularly only a few months before the election. Click the title of the article to see more details.