29개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
Today's press review
1. JoongAng Ilbo
While the S. Korean bourgeois conservative(reactionary) newspaper in its today's editorial laments about the "The tyranny of militant unions" in another article the paper asks (the silly question) "Would Ssangyong sit-in be legal at White House?"... Good question!^^
2. Today's Yonhap, S. Korea's semi-official news agency...
3. A kind of funny piece by KCNA/Rodong Shinmun(N. Korea)...
The Namyang Diary "scandal": Well... it's just another (bizarre) example depicting the ugly reality of capitalism "Made in Korea". But it's just the tip of the iceberg...
Related articles:
☞ Namyang Dairy Products Forces Products onto Distributors... (Kyunghyang Shinmun, 5.06)
☞ Foul language and brutual sales tactics lead to anti-Namyang campaign (TMH, 5.06)
☞ Convenience store owners boycott scandal-ridden dairy producer (Yonhap, 5.08)
☞ Namyang Dairy in crisis (Korea Herald, 5.08)
☞ Victims of corporate abuse air their grievances (Hankyoreh, 5.08)
Kaeseong Industrial Complex
One month ago...
...and today(resp. last night)
Related articles:
☞ Last South Koreans leave the Kaesong complex (Hankyoreh, 5.04)
☞ Kaesong Workers Sent Far and Wide (DailyNK, 5.05)
☞ N. Korea urges Seoul to abandon hostilities for resumption of Kaesong complex (Yonhap, 5.05)
PS: "The closure of the KIZ(Kaesong Industrial Zone) will only bring enormous losses and damage to the south side, not to the north.
On the contrary, it will create more favorable conditions for the Great War for National Reunification as it would be possible to reoccupy the vast area of the KIZ as a military theatre, level at Seoul at closer distance and pave a wide road for southward advance..." (KCNA, 4.28)
"Nearly 10,000 South Korean workers and labor activists staged a massive rally in downtown Seoul on Wednesday to mark the 123rd International Workers' Day, demanding the government resolve thorny labor issues. Members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the more militant of the nation's two umbrella labor unions, and civic activists gathered at a public plaza in front of Seoul City Hall in downtown Seoul" (Yonhap, 5.01)
Well, according to the S. Korean independent media (NewsCham, VOP etc.) at least 15,000 activists gathered in front of Seoul City Hall...
...but they were trapped by thousands of riot cops:
And shortly after the rally they(the riot cops) attacked some 1000 KCTU activists:
Here you can read some updated (Korean)reports related to today's "May Day" rallies in S. Korea!!
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