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Since three weeks comrade Han Sang-gyun, the head of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), is hiding in the Jogye Buddhist temple in central Seoul! According to the conservative/reactionary newspaper Dong-A Ilbo(11.18), Han - the former union head of Ssangyong Motor under the Korean Metal Workers’ Union - is facing an arrest warrant for failing to appear in court four times on the charge of staging illegal protests...
The latest developments, as reported by JoongAng Ilbo and Yonhap News Agency:
And eventually today's Korea Herald reported the following:
Korea’s police chief on Tuesday issued an ultimatum to Han Sang-kyun, the leader of the nation’s second-largest umbrella union currently seeking refuge at a Buddhist temple, to surrender before the officials by 4 p.m. Wednesday, warning of a forced entry and arrest if he refuses...
Korean National Police Agency chief Kang Sin-myeong said that the police would “no longer tolerate Han’s evasion,” saying that the leader of the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions “had led numerous illegal and violent protests.”
“We conducted a comprehensive analysis of Han and Jogye Temple’s actions, along with his Facebook postings, and came to the conclusion that there is very little possibility of his voluntary surrender,” Kang said in an emergency press conference. “Although neither the Jogye Temple nor the Jogye Order has confirmed their cooperation, the police are no longer in a position to consider their positions.”
Kang also warned the members of KCTU who might assemble outside the temple and hinder the arrest, pledging firm action against anyone who resists the execution of the arrest warrant or helps the suspect evade the law...
Y'day(12.5) afternoon in central Seoul: Tens of thousands of protestors peacefully marched through the S. Korean capital city under police protection(sic!) in the 2nd 'All-out People's Action' rally, defying concerns over violent confrontation between them and the police.
About 50,000(according to the organizers and the independent media/the cops "counted" only 14,000) people - activists and members of KCTU, the (South)Korean Peasants League, several human/civil rights/resistance organisations, student solidarity groups etc. - gathered at Seoul City Hall Plaza to demand President Park Geun-hye step down, condemning her administration for stifling political freedom and pushing ahead with controversial education, trade and labor policies(today's Korea Herald published an unusual balanced report, depicting yesterday's rallies/demos)...
Detailed reports in Korean, incl. lots of pics, you'll get on LabourStart(please check out the links, posted 12.5/6)!
The Civil Society Organizations Network in Korea - which represents around 500 organizations including People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement, and Korean Women’s Association United - provided the police with plans to hold a demonstration and a march at Seoul Plaza on Dec. 5.
These groups are stepping up to defend the freedom to assemble and demonstrate, after the police banned the Korea Farmers’ League from holding a second large rally.
On Dec. 2, civic groups, religious figures, and lawmakers from the National Assembly held a joint press conference at the Franciscan Education Center in central Seoul in support of holding a peaceful nationwide rally on Dec. 5. “With the government banning rallies not only by the Korea Farmers’ League but also by the Pan-National Countermeasures Committee for the Recovery of the Farmer and Worker for Life and Peace Baek Nam-gi and the Denunciation of State Violence, civic groups have submitted a petition for an assembly in the name of this network in order to play a more active role,” said Yeom Hyeong-cheol, chair of the network’s operating committee during the press conference.
On Dec. 1, the group submitted its plans for the assembly to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on Dec. 1, using the name of “nationwide assembly” rather than the “second popular rally” in a bid to motivate more people to join. The group expects that about 5,000 people will participate in the protest and march.
The network did not participate in the first popular rally on Nov. 14...(source: Hankyoreh, 12.3)
In the late afternoon(KST) Yonhap News Agency reported the following: Police said Thursday that they have decided to prohibit civic groups from staging a massive rally in downtown Seoul this weekend, as it appears to be led by the same groups who were in charge of last month's violent protest...
On Tuesday, the Civil Society Organizations Network in Korea, an association of 490 liberal civic groups across the country, notified police that it will hold a massive rally at the public plaza in front of the Seoul City Hall and march through the heart of the city to Daehangno Street on Saturday.
"We'll not permit the rally since it seems to be an extension of the Nov. 14 rally, which turned violent," a police official said...
Police earlier denied a plan for another rally this weekend reported by a farmers' association that led the Nov. 14 rally, along with the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), a militant umbrella labor union, and a progressive teachers' union.
The police official said the two rallies are actually the same one, with most of the rally organizers also the same...
A short while later Korea Times reported that "A court has ruled against a police move to ban a rally planned for Saturday in central Seoul by civic, labor and farmers groups that held a massive anti-government demonstration on Nov. 14. The Seoul Administrative Court said Thursday that it had accepted the request from the groups to annul the police ban on their second rally..."
The South Korean government has gone ahead with a ban on a rally scheduled for Dec. 5, despite the organizers’ promise that the event would be peaceful. Now it is making threats about how all participants are to be punished. Its response to a public that just wants to be heard is to show its fists...(Hankyoreh, 12.2)
Here you can follow the latest developments, regarding the imminent 2nd 'All-out People's Action' struggle day, planned for next Saturday(12.5) in central Seoul...
A temple association for the Jogye Temple in Seoul, where Han Sang-gyun, the 53-year-old chairman of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), has taken refuge since leading an illegal rally on Nov. 14, said Tuesday that it had decided to let him stay until Sunday, but urged him to leave as soon as possible. The KCTU welcomed the decision by the The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism Lay Buddist Association and promised at a press conference to decide Han’s fate as soon as possible. Lee Young-ju, the secretary general of the KCTU, said members would carefully consider the decision and work hard to successfully hold its second mass rally, scheduled for Saturday. At the end of the press conference, Han looked out the window and pledged to lead the peaceful demonstration in support of workers’ rights...(source: JoongAng Ilbo, 12.2)
This evening(12.2) in central Busan: KCTU activists prepared for the "worst case scenario"(PM vows stern measure against masked protesters)...
More updated reports in English you'll get on LabourStart!
About two weeks ago The New York Times wrote in its editorial the following: South Koreans can be as proud of their country’s emergence from dictatorship into a vibrant democracy as they are of the rags-to-riches development that made their country a global industrial powerhouse. So it is alarming that President Park Geun-hye appears intent on backtracking on the democratic freedoms that have made South Korea as different from North Korea’s puppet regime as day is from night...
And it seems that the "authorities" in Seoul are trying to do their "best" to prove S. Korea's retrocession! Here just some of the latest examples...
☞ Business owner hangs critical poster, gets visits from cops (Hankyoreh, 11.30)
☞ Make the VIP Uncomfortable, Be the First to Be Censored (KHSM, 11.30)
☞ No masked terrorists (Korea Times, 11.27)
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