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2. Tomorrow's Culture Festival in Yongsan:

3. Rallies Planned Over Weekend (K. Times, 6.12)
 

Warning Issued Against Illegal Gatherings

A series of rallies are planned over the weekend in downtown Seoul, with clashes between demonstrators and police as well as traffic congestion feared.

Police pledged strong action against protesters who use violence or disrupt traffic.

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), one of the nation's two umbrella unions, will hold a rally in front of Korea Development Bank in Yeouido at 4 p.m. Saturday, with 8,000 participants expected.

The demonstration is in support of the strike of cargo truck drivers, who started a walkout Thursday to demand that a logistics company renew contracts with 30 of their colleagues. The group will also call for Ssangyong Motor to scrap its layoff of nearly 1,000 workers.

After the Yeouido rally, they plan to hold a candlelit protest in front of the main gates of Deoksu Palace, just across the street from Seoul Plaza, at 7 p.m. Police refused a request for a rally on the plaza, but have not ruled out the possibility of an attempted advance to the area because of the limited capacity in front of the gate.

Another gathering is scheduled on Saturday evening to commemorate the death of two middle schoolgirls, Shim Mi-son and Shin Hyo-sun, who were accidentally struck and killed by a U.S. armored vehicle north of Seoul in 2002.

Civic groups have held the commemoration at Seoul Plaza every year since 2003. But police are considering a blockade of the plaza with patrol buses.

Striking cargo truck drivers will also gather in Seoul and stage a demonstration Saturday, but have not yet decided on the exact site.

On Sunday, some 3,000 civic group members will gather at Jangchung Gymnasium at 2 p.m. to commemorate the June 15 Joint Declaration signed between former President Kim Dae-jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in 2000.

They plan to march to a park in Euljiro after the gathering despite the police's earlier notice that they would ban the march.

"We will take a stern attitude toward rallies without prior permission, as well as arrest violent protestors with evidence from video clips even after the gatherings are over," a police officer at the National Police Agency said.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/06/113_46746.html