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Pyeongtaek, summer 2009: Thousands of workers at the SsangYong Motor Company production line took action to stop the planned mass layoff. The workers, mainly organized in the Korean Metal Workers Union (KMWU, SsangYong branch) occupied parts of the factory and held out for 77 days against repeated assaults/terror attacks by large units of the riot cops, incl. SWAT. (*)

Dozens of workers were jailed afterwards, many others lost their jobs and some later killed themselves...

Han Sang-kyun, the secretary of the local KMWU chapter originally received four years jail.  Last Saturday night, after serving three years in prison, comrade Han Sang-kyun was released!!

In front of Hwaseong Prison at midnight upon his release, he joined the "Solidarity & Welcome Rally":

And today in the morning(KST), after a short break with his family, he visited the SsangYong Memorial Site in downtown Seoul:

Related articles (by NewsCham, 8.06):
☞ 77일 쌍용차 파업이끈 한상균 전 지부장 3년 만기출소
☞ 쌍용차 분향소 영정 앞에 선 한상균
☞ (Interview) 한상균, “‘미안하다’던 편지가 가장 기억에 남아”

 

* Related reports you can check out here:
http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/1872
http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/1891
http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/1892
http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/1893
http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/1898
http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/1899
http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/1903
http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/1905