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Today 220,000 workers joined our nation wide strike and 20,000 gathered in Seoul...
Students joined with class boycott...
...and famers in rural area and small shop owners in cities stop their work as well.(source: KCTU, 11.30, 20:00KST)
A short while earlier KCTU reported(via facebook) the following: Hundreds of thousands of Korean workers, farmers, students, street vendors and other Koreans are taking part in general strike and day of civil disobedience right now calling for Pres. Park's immediate resignation. We have stated clearly we wont accept Park's plan to have the national assembly debate and come up with a plan for her resignation, buying time for conservatives to regroup. We are calling for Park's immediate resignation, abolition of her anti worker and anti democratic policies and punishment for the politicians and chaebols involved in the corruption scandal surrounding her.
First (related)reports in Korean you'll get on LabourStart!
On Nov. 30 we will go on a national strike for resignation of Park Geun-hye and abolition of all the policies driven by her government. Other social movements will join us with different types of actions. The government already declared this strike illegal while international trade union movement is showing strong solidarity(*)...(source: KCTU, 11.28)
[On that day] A daytime protest is scheduled at Gwanghwamun Square at 3 p.m., followed by a street march at 4 p.m., and a candlelit protest at 6 p.m. The organizers are urging workers to take the day-off, those self-employed to shut down, and college students to boycott classes. The KCTU said up to 300,000 union members will stage a partial walk out...(source: K. Times, 11.28)
* Related article:
☞ Global unions in support of S. Korean general strike (IndustriALL, 11.28)
Rallies against Park Geun-hye will continue until the day of her resignation, even on weekdays, organizers of the rallies said Monday. They said the Saturday rallies, as well as daily candlelit protests on weekdays, will be held in December in front of Seoul Finance Center near Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul. "The concentrated voice of the public protesting against the President over numerous influence-peddling allegations involving her confidant Choi Soon-sil shows no sign of abating," said an official of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(KCTU), one of the organizers...(source: K. Times, 11.28)
Today's S. Korean (bourgeois newspaper)Korea Times reported the following: Park Geun-hye is no longer the President for those who poured onto the streets for candlelit protests in Seoul...
...and other major cities nationwide, Saturday. In the biggest anti-government rally in the country's history, more than 1.9 million protesters came out to demand Park's resignation — 1.5 million at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul and about 400,000 in other areas, according to organizers. The cold snap and snow did not deter people, furious about the presidential scandal involving Park's friend Choi Soon-sil, from taking to the streets for a fifth candlelit rally...(the complete report you can read here)
Related articles:
☞ 1.9 MILLION citizens storm the streets... (K. Times, 11.26/incl.video)
☞ Candles become torches as 1.9 million gather... (Hankyoreh, 11.27)
☞ Vigils hit record of 1.9 million (JoongAng Ilbo, 11.27)
Related reports(incl. lots of pics) in Korean you'll get here:
☞ 전국 190만 집결, 역대 최대 인파 운집…”박근혜 퇴진” (참세상, 11.26)
☞ 5차 촛불집회 전국 190만 모여...“퇴진이 답” (KHMU, 11.27)
☞ 11월26일 5차 촛불집회... (KCTU, 11.27)
Two days ago(11.19) in central Seoul and many other parts across S. Korea: Hundreds of thousands of citizens took to the streets to call for President Park Geun-hye's resignation in the latest rally underscoring public anger over the corruption and influence-peddling scandal involving her confidante... (source: Yonhap)
Korean Health and Medical Workers’ Union(KHMU) joined the 4th People's Rally for resignation of Park Geun-hye on 19th November. Around 600,000 in Seoul and 300,000 in other provinces gathered...(here you'll get the full report, incl. some impressive pics)
And - as you can see...
THE STRUGGLE GOES ON!
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