A tree called democracy feeds on blood.

 There are numerous famous speeches in world history that shook people's hearts and changed history. There have been many famous speeches in our history. One of them was Pastor Moon Ik-hwan's speech at the funeral of Lee Han-yeol on July 9, 1987.

There were no beautiful sentences or expressions that touched people's hearts in the speech. However, as soon as Pastor Moon Ik-hwan gave a speech, people began to cry and sobbed for a long time even after finishing. The speech was the name of 26 people. From the mid-1970s to 1987, Pastor Moon Ik-hwan called the "Yeolsa" who hit the black rock with their bare bodies during the Yushin period and the barbaric era of the Fifth Republic. Those who failed to join the scene of the huge history of the June Uprising but died dreaming of that moment, who finally contributed the most to the victory of the people and the crumbles of the shabby dictatorship.

The first person to be called was Jeon Tae-il, a worker. I've explained about him several times, so let's move on to the next person today. The second person to be called was Kim Sang-jin.

1975 was a very dark year. On April 9 of that year, eight people involved in the so-called People's Revolutionary Party (Inhyuk Party) incident disappeared due to the dew of the gallows. It was on April 8th, a day before the Supreme Court's final ruling was made to them. In other words, less than 24 hours after the death sentence fell, the regime killed them. On the same day when people involved in the Inhyuk Party heard the terrible ruling of the death penalty, President Park Chung-hee committed ridiculous things that specified a university and made "emergency measures." He declared, "We prohibit rallies and demonstrations in Korea University, and the Minister of National Defense can mobilize troops to maintain the order of this school when deemed necessary." In other words, the president fought against a university.

It is said that the yellow dust was unusually severe that spring. The Yushin regime's life covered the entire university district and Korea like yellow dust, poking people's eyes and blocking their throats. However, it is a proud tradition in our modern history that there have been people who have said what to say in front of any cruel tyranny and bitter power. Three days after the announcement of the emergency measures, and two days after Inhyuk Party officials were killed during their departure, a great distance to the toxic and childish dictatorship erupted at Seoul National University's agricultural school. The main character was Kim Sang-jin, a freshman at Seoul National University.

Although he was active in the student council, he was a returning student who had already served in the military. It means that whether you got a job in a good place with a signboard from Seoul National University or went to graduate school to study, you were a promising young man whose future could not be so dark. In fact, it is said that Kim Sang-jin was thinking about his career as a graduation class. However, I think the mind changed when the world turned rough and the juniors shrank as if they were exhausted. "After returning to school, the organization is a mess. It should be corrected (Shin Dong-ho, Toyosae Publishing Co., Ltd.) of "Campus in the 1970s".”

"It's not a big deal to go to jail when a person is dead".

Kim Sang-jin, who took care of himself as chairman of the Livestock Department Countermeasures Committee, will prepare for the third rally of Seoul National Agricultural University on April 11. But it was kind of weird. He wrote a declaration of conscience and sent it to each broadcasting station, but he gave a strange tip to reporters. "Something will happen on April 11 at Seoul National Agricultural University." And finally on April 11, Kim Sang-jin began reading the declaration of conscience prepared standing tall in front of his seniors and juniors and friends in a bloody voice.

"(Strategy) The university is becoming a slave to Huigang, the professors are becoming spokesmen for the government, and we are only crying without reaction, just like a chick who has lost its mother chicken. If our argument is never wrong, and our argument is never unconscionable, how will we continue our disgraceful lives by trampling our pride anymore? Comrades representing us are moaning on the cold cement floor, and the innocent people are disappearing into the dew of the prison. It is said that a tree called democracy feeds on blood."

Kim Sang-jin's voice that democracy grows on blood must have been trembling. It was because it was the same word as a notice of what he had to do in the near future. My friends must have looked at Kim Sang-jin because they felt something strange. "If this is the way to realize eternal social justice, there is no waste of giving up this humble life." After that, Kim Sang-jin took his eyes off the manuscript and began to speak in a dripping voice while looking at people. "Don't be swayed by my future actions and regain complete reason..." What we have to do in name and reality...." The eyes of the friends who were watching Kim Sang-jin grew bigger and screamed. 

Kim Sang-jin took out the knife from his arms. It was a fruit knife on the day I went out to buy ice cream with my junior, saying, "Buy me ice cream." "What are you doing!" My friends next to me rolled over Kim Sang-jin, but he was already putting a knife in his lower abdomen and drawing it up. It is said that Kim Sang-jin asked his friends who took him to the hospital to "sing a patriotic song." The East Sea and Baekdusan Mountain somehow came out, but the tears never dried up and the heart was worn out. 

Listening to the national anthem of half wailing and half singing, Kim Sang-jin lost consciousness by capturing the last sky of his life in his eyes. When Kim Sang-jin ended his short life at 25, the Park Chung-hee administration did not even allow normal funerals. Less than a day after his death, he was forced to move the body to the crematorium and put on makeup.

April of that year was really cruel. The Inhyuk Party incident and Kim Sang-jin incident froze the whole country, and South Vietnam, where South Korean troops were dispatched as "free allies" on April 30, collapsed by the attack of North Vietnam. Amid fears that "Next is our turn," the Yushin regime suffocated the whole country on May 13, when it issued Emergency Measure No. 9, a compilation of emergency measures. The Yushin Constitution was a vicious measure that could lead to the highest "death penalty" just by "slandering." They probably heard a toast at the Blue House. "Your Majesty, it will be quiet now."

On May 22, only the ninth day after Emergency Measure No. 9 began to dance the young sword dance, a massive demonstration broke out at Seoul National University. This demonstration, called the "Odudul Demonstration," will not be a choice anymore, but it was a fierce straight line on the chin of the Park Chung-hee administration, which was stretching its chest. "Justice never died." It is said that there was a small debate among students while preparing for this protest. "We need to be careful at a time when murderous emergency measures have been taken," and "Kim Sang-jin died like that." "Is it a big deal to go to prison when a person is dead?" 

Naturally, the latter won, and Kim Sang-jin's name is called in history for the first time amid the Oduldul protest. "Oh, oh, you'll hear the crack of the bare ground/ You'll come with a drop of innocent blood/ With a sad story behind you/ Then with your naked body (Seoul National University English and 4th grader Kim Jung-hwan's examination)." Kim Sang-jin probably ran together, reading the end of the declaration of conscience he couldn't read.

"Watch your progress in a satisfactory smile. The day the great victory arrives, me! I will send silent applause to the whole world."