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Sorry, but it takes long time to select some good pictures from 300...

and writing report...

so please just stay in patience...

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on today's disabled activists demo at least 70 people were arrested...

everything else hopefully short while later.

미안해요...

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…was just strange and crazy.

First of all at least 1.600 riot cops were surrounding the Citizen Park (열린 시민공원), opposite of the Gyeongbok-gung (palace), just to take care that 6 Yangko players and about 60 kids don’t play revolution – ha, ha!

Actually the reason for the rally was to memorize the 4.19 uprising in 1960, when the democracy movement – mainly students from the middle class, because the children from workers and peasants were not able to study (their parents were just to poor) – was able to overthrow the Ree Syng-man regime (he was ruling the country since 1948 by a corrupt and anti-communist dictatorship).

But the main issue was not a possibly better democratization of S. Korea - the main issue was Tokdo (the big rock in the East Sea, also stressed by Japan). So, for example the representative of DLP’s (민노당) student group was just talking about the Japanese imperialism/militarism and of course the stone in the sea. Topic missed, sit down!

I guess she is sitting on...

...surprise, surprise - yeah, on 日本!!

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As I wrote last night yesterday there was not only polit-trash, but also some nice surprises before. In the early by a mistake I ended up near Cheonghwadae, the presidential complex. In fact it was not planned as a mistake, but finally it was one. So I decided, because I had enough time (MWTV has for some days a kind of vacation), to walk to Ehwa. Perhaps you know that short after the Independent Gate (독립문) a long tunnel is beginning, only open for cars and so. The tunnel is ending near the backside of Ehwa. The reach this area on foot you must climb the Ansan (mountain) located between Independent Gate area and the Southeast and Northeast. So I started near the gate to climb – it was a real nice trip, only the noise from the roads in the valleys was terrible – and 30 minutes later I reached… Hongche-dong/무악제역 – exactly the opposite site in the North of Ehwa. So I started again to climb the mountain and because I knew that I have to go more to the South, after a while I found the right way. On the last quarter on my trip surprisingly I cam to a temple complex (봉원사). Because nearly no person was there it was really nice to watch the great architecture and enjoy the peaceful neighborhood. But also outside the complex the houses are very impressive – in old style and really beautiful (see on the pics following no. 10). After all, beside the afternoon “entertainment” it was a really nice day.

But today the “ordinary” life is continuing with a polit-event in the afternoon (the advertisement about it I found y’day in Ehwa), but perhaps it will be also just trash. Maybe you can read next about it?!

Following just some impressions from y'day's trip:

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For today’s 4.18 “Link”(Liberation in N. Korea) (Is there any?) and Ehwa Dream invited for the “North Korea awareness day”.

First checking the exhibition in students hall: just flattest propaganda, such as the famous-notoriously drawn picture about the butchered child (“Father, you want the lunch more spicy, or not?”, see the 2nd pic) or, also drawn by unknown “artists” about executions. The entire was added with a lot of religious trash.

Following in the building, which looks like a factory, a movie about some executions, recently smuggled out of the North. And than something about North Korean refugees in China – actually nothing new. The last was a Q&A with young female NK refugee, was a kind of interesting, because she reported convincingly about her experiences before she fled to China and later to Mongolia, now she is since five years in the South.

The final event: some kind of lecture by Ms. Kim (wow, what a surprise) from an anti-North group (“Democracy Network Against NK Gulag”) about how we can be happy to life in the South, how beautiful the democracy works and how nice the police (yeah the cops) is here (I know some people they see this complete different!!). Really terribly and even the young woman from the North felt annoyed.

After all: not a real nice afternoon performance, especially when I had to learn, that the “event” could be realized without any protest from student activists from Ehwa University. And actually the afternoon started for me really nice, but this is another story…

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Yesterday Seoul's city administration organized in Daehak-no a day for disabled people, usually ignored by the "rulers".

But the most of the audience - volunteers and...

...the show: just commerce.

Meanwhile disabled activists gathered to...

...take the main road nearby.

After some arguings...

...with the cops...

...the first rally, to celebrate the victory, was held.

First performance

Street party atmosphere

The next rally in the early afternoon

Korean traditional music

The 2nd performance

The following culture festival (about 200 people joined) in the late afternoon...

...started in a great atmonsphere.

Yeon Yeong-seok and friends

Park Hyang-mi on stage

Finally the rally took the entire road...

...and finished after nearly 10 hours struggle, music and party victorious.

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just ten minutes later

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4.16 (Sat.), 9:00 pm
on RTV or in internet on www.rtv.or.kr
See/read also related sources here and here.
Korean media is reacting here (Yonhap) and here (Ohmynews).

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...even in s. korea, after a long, long winter

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Tomorrow’s headliner in Korea Times (KT)

"Roh Opposes NK Regime Change

President Wants Reform in Pyongyang to Model After China, Vietnam"

Nowadays Roh is in Germany to visit there the political and economical “leadership”, a.k.a. the capitalist class and their means of power.

It seems that, at least, on the trip to there he went definitely stupid. First of all he can’t compare the DPRK with China and Vietnam. Vietnam already had its unification and China is a monster power country, in the near future THE main rival to the US imperialism.

In both countries red painted capitalist dictatorships are ruling, not dissimilarly the several dictatorships here in the past or the Guomindang (국민당/國民黨) period in Taiwan.

Both kinds of terror regimes had/have just one aim: fast industrial “development” (a.k.a. maximum profit for the capitalist class – its doesn’t matter if they are “national employed managers” or private capitalists), of course on the costs of the working class. Like in the past (and often still now) S. Korean (and Taiwanese) working class had just one right: to work like a donkey. No labor rights, no democratic rights, no human rights – just the right (or the DUTY) to work.

The same in today’s China and Vietnam: everything what smells after democracy, or other progressive ideas, is strictly prohibited by “law” (there not by a quasi fascist dictatorship such as in S. Korea and Taiwan was happen, instead by the ruling “communist” parties, the left underground opposition, some calls themselves the “real communist”, is threaten with death penalty).

But this is what Roh and the new S. Korean capitalists really want: one army of workers without any rights, their only right of existence should be the right to work to maximize the profits of the S. Korean capitalists by the smallest expenditures. If Kim Jong-il’s regime this is guaranteeing this (no workers rights, no trade unions, no human rights), than Roh will except his regime and will oppose all “regime changes” in the North. ``We are ready to help North Korea experience a market economy and pursue openness with the ongoing projects for the Kaesung Industrial Complex (KIC)…’’ Roh said, according to tomorrow’s KT. Naturally, because “even” migrant workers (migrant workers will be the first victims of this…) here are not willing to work for 50.000 won per month, North Korean workers get per month in KIC (and please remind that they will create workplaces there for around 500.000 NK workers).

“CONCLUSION”

Roh went not crazy or stupid – it’s just a very clever plan to get millions of cheap and (allegedly) defenseless slaves for the S. Korean capitalism.

BUT WE SHOULD FIGHT (not only in our interest) AGAINST THAT!!!