Instead of the Korea Presbyterian Church, the General Assembly (Chairman Ahn Tae-joon) has started to fight against the sale of Anyang University. About 500 students, professors and alumni from Anyang University held a rally in front of the Education Ministry building in Sejong City on Wednesday and demanded that the board of directors be prevented from being approved by the school's organization, Woo Il-hak (President Kim Gwang-tae). Wuil School, which operates Anyang University, selected four directors, two directors from Daejin-Sungju Association, each in August and December last year.
On the day, Ahn Yang-dae, the vice minister of the university, was crowded from morning. Students from general schools, including theological college, have begun to gather to attend the rally of the Ministry of Education. The student council members called each student who hadn't arrived to encourage them to participate. "More than 100 students have applied to attend, except for those at Shinhak University," an official said.솔레어아바타
At the afternoon rally, the alumni of Anyang University's Shinhak University and the general assembly of the university's Yejangdae district joined forces. The prayer meeting, which began before the rally, was followed by a resolution against the sale of schools. "It is like treason to sell a school to a large-scale rally, which is regarded as a heresy even in other religions," said Ahn Tae-joon, chairman of the group.
The participants agreed that the sale should be stopped. Park Kwang-soo, 23, a college freshman who had been shouting "No to Sell" with a cross, is about to graduate next month. Park raised the cross higher, saying, "The appointment of the university's board of directors is a matter that shakes the school's existence," adding, "After graduation, I attended the rally so that I wouldn't leave any hardship for my juniors."
Park Young-sook, a 59-year-old missionary, said she attended the rally to not repeat the pain she suffered during her Korean Protestant school days. "Even in the 1980s, the school was sold out," Park said, shaking the banner, saying, "We can't stop suffering from younger students."
Yoo Seong-geun, 25, who was wearing a red school jumper, attended the rally, even though he did not attend the church. "The essence of the problem is that the school sale process was not transparent," said Yoo, a student at the engineering college.
The emergency committee submitted signatures and petitions that collected 30,000 signatures to the Education Ministry. "As there is a controversy, the selection process will not be easy," a ministry official said at the meeting. The emergency committee plans to continue its protest in front of the National Assembly and in front of the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae`s Sarangchae.