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1.) MUST READ: A “worker for life and peace” breathes his last breath(Hankyoreh, 9.26)

2.) LATEST NEWS: Police raided a hospital in Seoul on Monday as part of their investigation into a farmer who died there earlier this week after he was hit by a police water cannon during a protest last year. The Seoul Jongno Police Station said it raided Seoul National University Hospital to obtain medical records on Baek Nam-gi, 69, who was pronounced dead of acute renal failure Sunday...(source: Korea Times, 9.26/here you'll get an more detailed news report))

A short while later: The police dispatched over 3,600 officers from 45 units to Seoul National University Hospital...

...where more than thousand citizens held a candlelight vigil...

...in front of the funeral home at 7 p.m. They shouted, "I am Baek Nam-gi," and "Killer police, go away."(source: Kyunghyang Shinmun)

3.) While today's (conservative)daily Dong-A Ilbo published the following: Farmer Baek Nam-ki passed away on Sunday after falling to the ground by high-powered police water cannons at the first general rally at Gwanghwamun Square in Nov. 14 last year. He was taken to Seoul National University Hospital after the accident and underwent a brain surgery but remained unconscious and hospitalized in the intensive care unit for 317 days. It was a sad loss of life after a violent protest that paralyzed central Seoul and brutal crackdown by the police...(here you can read the full text of the editorial) ...the other two conservative(resp. bourgeois-reactionary)mass-circulation newspapers JoongAng Ilbo and Chosun Ilbo reported... NOTHING(regarding Baek Nam-gi's death)!!!

4.) Nat'l workers' solidarity...