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In sharp contrast to the (almost) complete absence of solidarity with the expolited and oppressed in North Korea (by the S.K. "left"/"progressive" movement) there has been - during the era of the dictatorships in South Korea - a broad international support for the S.K. struggle for democracy.

And it included solidarity activities with the struggling S.K. working class:

1987 in South Korea female textile workers were involved in a difficult and lengthy strike action against the Flair Fashion factories, owned by the German company ADLER. In solidarity with those women, Rote Zora (*) placed a bomb in the ADLER concern’s head office in Haiback and later followed a night of co-ordinated attacks on nine ADLER branches around Germany. The damages ran up around 35 million DM, i.e. 18 million Euros (**). The action had a crucial importance because the striking women in South Korea won their fight, in that all serious demands were met (in Documenta Magazines: "Feminisms of the times").

1987년 7월 2일, 독일 대사관에 들어간 이리 후레아 패션 노동자 일부가 대사관

현관에서 연좌시위를 벌였다. (Yonhap) 

 
One of Rote Zora's most famous and successful actions came in 1987: While South Korean women workers were on strike against the German owned textile corporation Adler, which was boosting its production due to cheap labor prices in Korea, Rote Zora supported the efforts of the striking women. On one night in June 1987, there was a series of coordinated firebombings directed against Adler chain stores. The corporation soon gave in to the demands of the striking Korean women (in "Resistance Means Attack").

* From 1975 to 1988 within the context of the Revolutionary Cells (RZ), the autonomous women's organization called 'Rote Zora' developed. Although the Rote Zora followed the same fundamental concepts as the RZ, the group was also a radical feminist expression of the women's movement. But the group did not solely focus on women's issues, and the Rote Zora did carry out actions as part of RZ campaigns, for example against the NATO summit in 1982.

** 1 Euro = 1716.30 Won