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Before y’day, Saturday, May 14, in Daehakno’s 마로니에공원 WRI did a information afternoon against military service – a kind of event against militarism. But unfortunately only few people joined the event (maybe the majority of the activists went on this day to Gwangju…).

While the event was going on, around 40 people reminded the killed sex workers (prostitutes, I really don’t know what’s pc about that here…) 49 days ago in Seoul Seongbuk-gu (하월곡동). They (the sex workers) were locked in the house by “their” pimps, a fire broke out, they were not able to escape and many of them were killed. So a traditional ceremony was held for the victims of the (in reality) crime was held. Here you can read an article about the ceremony.

In the same time a anti-USA/nationalist(!!!) exhibition took place in the same area. In the early afternoon near Gwanghwamun about 300 kids demonstrated against the rules of hair-cutting in S. Korean schools. “Funny” - even daily 200.000 people are visiting the activist’s web site - only few (Korea Times wrote about just 70 protestors) joined the protest. But at least 1.200 riot cops were there in readiness to crackdown the protest (here you can read a Korean article about it). And of course beside all this I was trying to spread out the information about Anwar’s arrest here and “all over the world” (like  S. Africa, Peru and Istanbul. And just now I finished with all this stuff…