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(21 Aug 1995) T/I 10:31:25


STORY: ANNIVERSARY
LOCATION: VARIOUS, SOUTH KOREA
DATE: 15 AUGUST 1995
DURATION: 2.20

Seoul celebrates liberation

South Korea began tearing down the former Japanese Governor
General's Office Building in Seoul Tuesday( 15/8), marking the
50th anniversary of its liberation from Japanese colonial rule at
the end of World War II. President Kim Young-sam said it was
important for Japan to properly recognize the wrongs its wartime
actions inflicted on Koreans and other Asians. In Seoul a gala
Liberation Day ceremony unfolded in front of the former Japanese
Governor General's Office Building. Some 50,000 people attended
the ceremony. The spire on top of the dome of the old Japanese
colonial headquarters was lowered by a giant crane to the beating
of drums, the explosion of firecrackers, and applause. Meanwhile,
across town thousands of students shouting "Unification" battled
with riot police while trying to march to the border for a banned
rally with North Koreans on the 50th anniversary of liberation
from Japanese rule. Some 10,000 students, many of them wielding
metal pipes, clashed with hundreds of riot police at a northern
suburban intersection leading to the road to the truce village of
Panmunjom.


SHOWS:

(SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, 15/8)
WS of Japanese wartime HQ building. Roof of building with crane, red flames around rim. CU of tower being removed from top of building. Street procession. More of same. Float in procession. Runners in procession with flags. Man up steps with Olympic torch. Hands torch to Olympic marathon runner Soon Ki Chung. Chung hands torch to President Kim Young Sam.

(KU PA BAL, 15/8)
VS of rioters clashing with riot police.

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