An attempt to create a far-right club under the slogan ‘Yoon Again’ at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) has failed.
Shin Min-ki, chairman of the ‘KAIST Stop the Silence Joint Countermeasures Committee,’ posted on Facebook on the 1st that ‘Freedom Daejeon KAIST,’ a group identified as far-right, failed to register as a provisional club. The club did not meet the requirement of having at least 10 undergraduate or graduate student members by the membership registration deadline, and thus was not even considered for review for club registration. KAIST clubs are divided into fully registered clubs and provisionally registered clubs.
Freedom Daejeon KAIST was spearheaded by Noah [last name withheld], a student in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the university. As soon as the attempt to establish the club, with activities reminiscent of far-right organizations such as: △ exposing anti-state forces and “truth about rigged elections” △ anti-China, pro-anticommunism △ ‘Yoon Again,’ became known, it faced strong criticism both inside and outside the school. The KAIST branch of the National Graduate Student Labor Union posted a condemnation notice on campus on the 22nd of last month, stating, “There is no place for extremist right-wing groups that promote xenophobia, exclusion, and violent behavior within the KAIST community,” and called for action from the university administration.
Noah put up promotional banners on campus and attempted to recruit members for provisional club registration from the 1st to the 15th of last month. However, according to the university’s system as of the day before the deadline, no one had registered except himself.
Chairman Shin said, “The club registration of Freedom Daejeon KAIST was a complete failure,” adding, “I think this is because reasonable students have expressed their rejection of conspiracy theories and far-right ideologies through various channels.” He added, “We will continue to resist far-right intrusions that disturb the community, in solidarity with members of diverse local communities.”
Shin, a KAIST alumnus (Class of 2014, Department of Computer Science), was involved in the infamous ‘Mouth-Taped Incident’ at KAIST last February, where he protested R&D budget cuts during former President Yoon Seok-yeol’s speech at the graduation ceremony and was forcibly removed by security with his mouth taped.
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