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2009.1.20: A two-hour long massive and extreme violent crackdown, executed by an Anti-terror/SWAT unit, against 40 activists, resisting a so-called "redevelopment" project in Yongsan, central Seoul, left at least six people dead and 17 injured... [☞ SWAT Unit Attacked Sit-in Strike, Executed Massacre... (2009.1.20)]
Yesterday(1.19) afternoon, almost 4 years later, about 2000 people(citizens and labor/resistance activists) rallied and demonstrated in downtown Seoul to remember the Yongsan Massacre, to demand final justice for the victims and the end of the unhuman so-called "redevelopment" projects...
Impressions from today's memorial service in Maseok("Moran Park", the cemetary for the victims of exploitation and oppression in S. Korea):
Related articles:
☞ 용산참사 4주기 추모대회...“용산은 끝나지 않았다” (NewsCham, 1.19)
☞ 마르지 않는 눈물이지만..."우리가 희망임을 증명하자" (OMN, 1.19)
☞ 끝나지 않은 용산참사, 2000여명 4주기 추모 (VOP, 1.19)
☞ 2009. 1. 20. 용산 유가족의 멈춘 시간 (NewsCham, 1.20)
Well, it seems that the area around the HQ of Park Geun-hye's transition committee in Samcheong-dong, an neighborhood in central Seoul, became - for the time being - the new center for the S. Korean protest movement/class struggle...
Here some more impressions from yesterday's protests in Samcheong-dong:
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☞ 67개 노동탄압 사업장, 인수위 상대로 공동투쟁 돌입 (NewsCham, 1.16)
☞ 경찰은 연행한 노동자들을 석방하고, 인수위는 즉각 대화에 나서라! (KCTU, 1.17)
Starting in the early morning of last year's Nov. 20, three dismissed Ssangyong Motor workers in Pyeongtaek(Gyeonggi province) ascended an electricity pylon to stage a sit-in protest. KCTU activists Han Sang-kyun, Moon Ki-joo and Bok Ki-seong are demanding the re-employment of the dismissed workers(as promised by the SsangYong management) and that a parliamentary inspection of the lay-offs be held.
Today is the 55th day of their sit-in struggle...
On December 10, Ssangyong Motor and the corporate union agreed to reinstate all 455 workers on leave without pay. The agreement is late in coming, but it is significant for it lays the first foundation to resolving the chaotically entangled Ssangyong Motor issue. The 455 workers on leave without pay will return to the Pyeongtaek plant on March 1.
But 159 laid-off workers including the three protesting atop a transmission tower and 1,904 workers on voluntary retirement still remain outside the factory. In other words, the conflict and challenges between labor and management are ongoing... (Kyunghyang Shinmun, 1.11)
And so... THE STRUGGLE GOES ON!!
Last Friday(1.11) morning in Seoul: Kim Jeong-woo (C), the leader of Ssangyong Motor Co.'s labor union, and other activists of the union protested in front of the office of the transition committee for President-elect Park Geun-hye after being denied a meeting with the committee's officials over their demand for a parliamentary inspection...
Related report:
☞ 인수위, 쌍용차 지부 면담 ‘거부’...인수위원회 앞 충돌 (NewsCham, 1.11)
Last Friday evening in Pyeongtaek: Solidarity 'performance' in front of the sit-in struggle site...
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☞ Ssangyong to rehire all workers on unpaid leave (Korea Herald, 1.10)
☞ The First Step to Ending a String of Deaths... (Kyunghyang Shinmun, 1.11)
Since 84 days two labor activists - one official of the irregular workers' union of Hyundai Motors and the other a former irregular worker at the automaker - are now in sit-in strike on a power supply post...
Two weeks ago The Korea Herald reported that "A local court ordered two Hyundai Motor Co. contract workers to end their two-month protest atop a power-transmission tower, saying rejection of the ruling will cause them to pay daily fines of 300,000 won (US$280)..."
And it seems that y'day was the first 'rehearsal' to end the protest by force in the - possibly - near future: So-called 'security guards', i.e. thugs hired by Hyudai Motors, tried to storm and demolish the Solidarity Camp. But as you can see... their 'performance'(^^) FAILED(!!!):
Related articles:
☞ 현대차 송전탑 강제철거 용역, ‘미성년자’ 고용 (NewsCham, 1.08)
☞ Protesting labor activist offered full-time status... (Hankyoreh, 1.08)
☞ Two Hyundai Motor contract workers ordered to end protest... (K. Herald, 2012.12.27)
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