Demo

We went to the US Embassy in Seoul yesterday to take care of some paperwork, and didn't get done until after 3pm. On the way home, the traffic patterns were all screwed up, and riot police buses were lined up two deep on both sides of the road. We got up to where some of the demonstrators were, and we could finally see what the issue was. They were demonstrating against No Muhyon's plan to get rid of the National Security Law. Getting rid of it would legalize the communist party and make it possible for south Korean agitators to travel to north Korea for instructions instead of getting it through third countries. They were pointing out that perhaps this wasn't such a good idea at a time when the north was making a concerted effort to build nuclear weapons... They were also very pro-US/ROK alliance. Many American flags were being waved right alongside the Korean flags. When we got home, we later found out that more that 100,000 people had been at the demonstration. These people are why we're here, and why we should stay here.