Protest against the 1961 Korea-Japan Agreement (June 3 Incident)
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The
Park Chung-hee regime, which came to power through a coup d'état in 1961,
normalized relations between Korea and Japan by exchanging ratifications of the
Korea-Japan Agreement which was unfavorable to Korea in December 1965. Therefore,
university students and opposition parties staged large-scale protests from
1964 to after the signing of the 1965 treaty, arguing against the treaty and insisting
on nullifying the humiliating agreement between the two countries. The
government responded with oppressive measures of martial law and school
closures, and at CNU, 30 other students including Lee Hong-gil (Department of
History, 61) were disciplined for two years in 1964 and 1965.