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In South Korea, Chinese and Korean students are clashing over Hong Kong protests

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In South Korea, Chinese and Korean students are clashing over Hong Kong protests

Politics Korean students have found themselves at the centre of a political storm, clashing with Chinese students over views on Hong Kong’s political unrest

More recently, some say they have become the victims of cyberbullying and doxxing

Fiery Hong Kong student protests evoke memory of South Korea’s own 1987 June Struggle

On social media, photos of tear gas-filled protests at Chinese University are being compared with those of the student-led rallies against dictator Chun Doo-hwan

South Korean students are also clashing with mainland Chinese over their support for Hong Kong’s protests

“Do we have a troublemaker?” read the group chat exchange in Chinese. “This woman is so ugly,” one commenter wrote. “My friend found her Facebook details.”
Sujin Han looked in horror at the screenshot of a WeChat group someone had sent her. The messages were all about her – her face, personal information and contact details were being shared with the almost 500 members of a chat group for mainland Chinese students in South Korea.
As Hong Kong’s unrest continues into its sixth month, students like Han – in her early 20s and studying public administration at Korea University – have found themselves at the centre of a political storm. In recent weeks, South Korean universities have seen a rise in the number of clashes between Korean students and those from mainland China over their differing views on Hong Kong’s protests.

These have played out at so-called Lennon Walls, where messages of support for protesters are shared, to areas where pro-protest banners and posters are put up. More recently, Korean students say they have been victims of cyberbullying and doxxing – the publishing of a person’s private details online with malicious intent.