In April 1991, during a student demonstration in South Korea, a woman set herself on fire and threw herself from a railway bridge. Park Seung-hee, a female student at Chonnam National University, attended the 20,000 Alumni Resolution Convention held at Chonnam National University at around 2pm on April 29th, and threw herself from behind Yongbong Hall, the main building of Chonnam National University, at around 3pm. He was treated at Chonnam National University Hospital, and developed sepsis due to a bacterial infection caused by third-degree burns over his entire body. On May 17th 1991, he developed sepsis again, and died of illness on May 19th due to a high fever of over 40 degrees and multiple organ failure.
On April 26th 1991, in South Korea, Kang Kyung-dae, a university student who had participated in a demonstration against the government of Roh Tae-woo, who had become President of South Korea in 1987, was beaten to death by a police officer. This led to a series of student suicides by fire in protest, and seven students set themselves on fire. After that, there were frequent cases of students and workers setting themselves on fire in protest across the whole of Korea over the next month. The mourning for the dead became a violent demonstration, and the struggle for democracy developed into a situation involving the throwing of stones, Molotov cocktails and tear gas. In the midst of this, there were attempts at suicide in protest, and incidents of people being crushed to death in the midst of demonstrations, and the struggle became even more heated, with suicides being reproduced.
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