skull and he died on July 5. Through these affairs, citizens became distrustful towards the Chun Doo Hwan administration and democratic resistance was extended, with the June Democracy Movement established at the peak. The Chun Doo Hwan administration agreed to revise the constitution for a direct election system. Park Mi wrote that "the student generation of the 1980s played a pivotal role in the democratization of South Korean society". Present 2008 candlelight vigil After the discovery of mad cow disease in the United States, a candle light vigil was held to oppose the import of beef into South Korea from the United States. In response, the South Korean government suspended the import of beef. However, on 11 April 2008 the Lee Myungbak government initiated a deal with the US to restart import of beef. This sparked criticism that the government sold the people's life and health. On 2 May 2008, students and other citizens held another candle light vigil to show opposition to the beef import. At the first meeting, more than sixty percent of the participants were high school girls. The vigil continued for more than a hundred days and the issue finally became political. Hundreds of thousands of people participated in the rally during its peak in June and July. Finally the government mobilized the police and arrested a large number of participants. These people were put on trial for assembly and demonstration, and obstruction of ordinary traffic. 2011 demonstration for university tuition In the election pledge, the new government promised to lower university tuition, but they failed to fulfill this pledge, funding being the biggest problem. College students and related organizations demanded that the government implement its pledge, saying that tuition is too expensive and students are too busy with their part-time jobs to properly attend to their school work. Civil society and the university students demonstrated every day. The students even did the 10,000 bae, 10,000 bows, aimed at removing 10,000 earthly desires, for a lower tuition fee. Eventually, the government did not implement the promised half-tuition fee, but they did increase the government scholarship for the low-income bracket. 2015–16 demonstration for comfort women agreement A number of NGOs and international organizations tried to investigate and resolve the essence of the comfort women issue for 25 years. On 28 December 2015, South Korea and Japan came to an agreement regarding 'comfort women' or abducted Korean women