A university student Kang Min-seo poses for photographs in front of a poster supporting Hong Kong protesters at a university in Seoul, South Korea, November 15, 2019. REUTERS/Choi Ha-young
SEOUL (Reuters) - Kim Ji-mun, a 23-year-old South Korean university student, had just put up a banner on campus with his friends in support of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests when a group of Chinese students tried to take it down.
The encounter at Hanyang University in Seoul led to a seven-hour confrontation, he said, with the Koreans trying to protect their hand-written poster bearing the message "We join the democracy movement in Hong Kong", and the other side jeering, throwing things and chanting "One China".
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