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Last month(1.20) Yonhap News reported the following: South Korean conglomerate Lotte will likely relinquish its golf club in the rural town of Seongju so the land can be used for the deployment of a U.S. air missile defense system, informed sources said...

   According to officials from Lotte Group, Lotte International - the owner of the Seongju golf club - is expected to approve an exchange of the club for a piece of land in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, currently owned by the military.

   The group and the government reached a tentative deal late last year to exchange the golf course for the military-owned land after the government named the southeastern county and the Lotte golf course there the strategically best site for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system...

Today, group of dismissed workers occupied, together with represenatives from Seongju, the space in front of LOTTE Department Store in Myeong-dong(central Seoul) to protest the "tentative deal" in particular, and the THAAD deployment in S. Korea in general...

Here're just some impressions(photographed by comrade Choi Ji-eun), depicting the protest...