Ewha Womans University
Elite women's university campus tied to a sit-in that helped bring down a president.
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This guide to Ewha Womans University in Seoul returns to August 2016, when students barricaded professors inside a building over a new degree track approved without consulting them, and riot police eventually moved in. It follows reporters who kept digging after the standoff ended, drawn by an admissions file that didn't add up around one young equestrian student. The trail they found reached toward the highest levels of government.
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