Q: Will there be more violence, more street clashes? A. No, we're not going to demonstrate in a way to make people mad at us. We'll have peaceful demonstrations. But if the government and the police try to stop us, then there'll be some violence. We're not going to stand by and be hassled.
Q. Is it right for students to use violence? A. Violence can be justified. For example, violence against Nazis was legitimate.
Q. Is the Government truly like the Nazis? A. It's hard to make a precise comparison. The oppression in (occupied) France must have been much more severe, because it came from abroad. But we're fighting against military fascism. The fascism in Korea is directly related to Hitler's Nazism.
Q. Could you go to jail for saying that? A. I'm not afraid of going to jail. As a student leader, it's something I take for granted."
"... Article 104-2 of the Republic of Korea's Criminal Code provides a penalty of up to seven years imprisonment for a Korean national "who insults or defames the Republic of Korea or her constitutional institutions, or who injures or causes injury to the security, interests, or the prestige of the Republic of Korea, by distorting the facts thereof or by circulating false facts or in any other way outside the country."
Source: Asia Watch, Freedom of Expression in the Republic of Korea, August, 1988, Pg. 40-42