Beat Down!

The big protest was today. I don't think it reached its expected 10,000 participants, but I heard the numbers reached around 7,000. There were about 12,000 Korean National Police out there to "de-escalate" the situation. It kind of reminded me of a movie like Braveheart... There was just a mass crowd of people, holding big sticks, some with yellow flags on them. And a constant stream of people coming out of the town, coming towards our premises. The KNP were lined up infront of our fence, so that the demonstrators would not get to the fence. Well, when the demonstrators reached the KNP, all hell broke loose. The demonstrators would swing their flag-bearing sticks at the KNP, and the KNP would retalliate by beating the living crap out of them with their 4 ft. long whoop ass sticks. Supposedly they broke through the fence where they had the most demonstrators, and about 5 people made it on post, but they didn't make it very far. It got out of hand at one point and it was just an all out brawl. About 100 KNP were injured, 2 of which are in critical condition and might die. I'm not sure about the demonstrators... we didn't get numbers on them, but I'm sure they had a few hospitalized as well. Crazyness!

Other than that... nothing out of the ordinary... Just another day in a country where the majority of the people don't want us here.