Seven weeks ago, another struggling Asian nationSouth Koreastaged its most peaceful postwar election as voters quietly returned reform-minded President Chung Hee Park to office for another four-year term. Last week, after separate elections for the National Assembly, South Korea suddenly reverted to its old noisy ways. For five straight days, thousands of high school and university students boiled through the streets of Seoul and 14 other cities, waving angry placards ("We demand new elections"), throwing rocks and bottles, and fighting through a police barrage of tear gas and night sticks.
The target of their wrath was not so much Park himself...
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