SEOUL - 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.
Kim said the Chinese students mocked the South Koreans in the Wednesday altercation, suggesting they had been paid to back Hong Kong, and making that point by throwing coins at them. South Korea has its own painful history of student-led, pro-democracy protests, in particular a l980 uprising crushed by troops.
Hong Kong's protests have stirred similar confrontations in various places around the world in recent weeks, usually involving patriotic Chinese students.China's embassy in South Korea said it regretted "emotional conflicts" between the students but it was "natural and sensible" for Chinese students to display anger towards efforts to hurt their country's sovereignty and distort facts.
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