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[Today in the morning(KST)] As already y'day afternoon(KST) announced by comrade Lee Chang-geun(*): After 101 days...

...the "Chimney Sit-in Protest"(previous reports in English you'll get here) in Pyeongtaek ended. 

Today's (bourgeois)Korea Times (rejoicing)reported the following:

A "chimney protest" that highlighted the plight of 187 workers laid off by Ssangyong Motor in 2009 is over.

Lee Chang-geun, who demanded their reinstatement from atop a 70-meter chimney at the company's plant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, came down Monday.

"With negotiations between the union and management in progress, I thought it wouldn't be necessary to continue this protest," he said. "I hope no other workers will have to come up here ever again. It is extremely painful and lonely."

Nearby the chimney, about 20 laid-off Ssangyong workers staged a protest saying, "It is time for the company to respond."

Exactly 101 days have passed since he climbed up onto the chimney in icy-cold weather on Dec. 13, along with Kim Jeong-wook, who came down earlier because of health problems...[The entire piece you can read here. Updated reports in Korean you'll get on LabourStart/please check out today's(3.23) links]

* Here you can read Lee Chang-geun's statement, published y'day afternoon(KST)...