Basically these students are protesting to remain an elitist institution by not allowing in older students who could not afford to go to college after high school, but could later on in their lives:
Students of Ewha Womans University stage a sit-in protest on Sunday at the main hall of the school to denounce the school’s plan to establish a college for people who have entered the workforce without a university education. The students have been occupying the building since Thursday. [NEWSIS]Hundreds of students at Ewha Womans University in Seodaemun District, western Seoul, have been occupying one of the school’s halls for days in a bid to pressure the university to scrap its decision to create a college for non-traditional students.
Some 300 students have participated in the sit-in so far, which began last Thursday in a building housing the president’s office. The school’s board of trustees had officially decided that day to push the plan forward, rejecting voices from the student body that denounced the so-called Future Life College.
A group of five professors and faculty members who joined Thursday’s meeting was locked inside the building when 200 students stormed in to express their defiance, leading local police to dispatch around 1,600 officers Saturday to guide them out.
Around 10 students were physically injured during the altercation. Some were transported to a nearby hospital by ambulance.
The school’s initiative to establish the Future Life College is led by the Ministry of Education, which sought to offer high-quality education to people who started working right after graduating from high school. The plan was to offer opportunities for those who couldn’t afford a college education but felt the need to get one later in their careers. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
Where is their filial piety?