This giant mural on the humanities building at Kyung Hee is one of the few reminders left of the radical student politics back in the 1980s and 1990s here in Korea. The year I first arrived here was 1994 and my was it a different place with regular burning ceremonies by gleeful students of the American flag, effigies of Uncle Sam and GATT treaty posters. Riots in the streets of Seoul resulted in plenty of Moletov cocktails thrown and tear gas fired. Students these days seem only concerned about buckling down to study so they can land that nice job (or any job with the high unemployment rate among graduates) after graduation at the right firm. I miss the idealism and sense of student camaraderie that existed back in the nineties here.