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33 years have passed since the day when many citizens went to the streets and faced military dictatorship to get this democracy that we now take for granted. At that time, the fire of a democratic conflict broke out as it was discovered that Park Jong-cheol, a college student, died after torture by the police. The democracy protest ceremony was held today (10th) in the old police anti-aircraft room where tortured.

First, reporter Jung Kyung-yoon.

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office at the former security office in Namyeong-dong, Seoul.

In 1987, Park Jong-cheol, a former Seoul National University student, died in a police torture.

The June 10 Democracy Remembrance Ceremony was held today, symbolizing the violence of military dictatorship.

President Moon Jae-in called the names of democratization spirits one by one.

[President Moon Jae-in: (Mother Tae-il Jeon's mother) Mrs. So-sun Ko, Jung-gi Park, father-in-law of Park Jong-cheol… ]

Twelve democratization merit winners, including Park Jung-ki and Ko Young-rae, who were lawyers, received the National Medal of Merit.

In addition to the 11 deceased, President Moon gave medals to the mother of Marshal Han-yeol Lee and Ms. Eun-shim Bae.

[President Moon Jae-in: Our democracy can never retreat. We need to move toward more democracy, bigger democracy, more diverse democracy.]
President Moon, who visited the investigation room at Room 509, where Park Jong-cheol was tortured, said, "It was a fear from the beginning in a tight sense of isolation."

[Mingapryong / Police Commissioner: to specify a place as a pilgrimage of police history, will allow everyone to reflection and introspection to come here new police]

Cheong Wa Dae official said, their ball as it received the Medal "Parents of martyrs are on behalf of the Martyrs It was evaluated."

The reason for the fact that Park, Jong-cheol and Han Yeol-yeol, who were not eligible for training, explained that the government officials said, “Because we deferred the meridian investigation and rewarded medals until more than 130 people were killed in the democratization movement.”

(Video coverage: Jo Jung-young and Dong-hwan Shin, Video editing: Seong-hoon Jeong)