[Photo] Mother’s grief continues, 28 years later

Posted on : 2015-06-10 15:39 KST Modified on : 2019-10-19 20:29 KST

Bae Eun-shim, mother of Lee Han-yeol, looks at the newly unveiled memorial monument for her son, a Yonsei University student who died during the June Democratization Movement in 1987 when a tear gas grenade fractured his skull, June 9. The monument has the number “198769757922” commemorating the day Lee was hit (June 9), the day he died (July 5), the day of his funeral (July 9) and his age at the time he died (22). (by Lee Jeong-yong, staff photographer)

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