November 4, 1995
Web posted at: 8:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT)
SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the South Korean capital Saturday, demanding an investigation into a growing slush fund scandal that could involve President Kim Young-sam. (1.4M QuickTime movie)
Over 10,000 protesters, mostly students, battled riot police in a central Seoul park. Witnesses said that dozens of the demonstrators, many brandishing iron bars and tossing bricks, were arrested, and that police used tear gas to contain the crowd.
"Death to everyone involved in corruption," the protesters
chanted. "Death to the Kim Young-sam government."
Protests in Seoul and other parts of the country began Friday
in response to last week's tearful confession by former
president Roh Tae-woo that he accumulated a more than $650
million slush fund while in office. Roh has been accused of
using some of that money to help his ally Kim win election in
1992, but the current president has denied taking "a single
penny."
Demonstrators want a thorough investigation into Roh's slush fun, and how it ties in with Kim, and they are also continuing a call for criminal charges against Roh and his presidential predecessor Chun Doo-hwan for their part in smashing a 1980 pro-democracy movement in the city of Kwangju.
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