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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...
Last Saturday(2.11) in the evening(KST): With the temperature below zero, 800,000 South Koreans gathered to a candlelight rally calling for the swift impeachment of President Park Geun-hye and for an extension of the Special Prosecutor’s investigation. There were 750,000 people at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul alone, along with 50,000 people in Busan, Gwangju and other cities...(source: Hankyoreh, 2.12)
KCTU's report, incl. lots of pics you'll get here.
Related reports by the S. Korean (bourgeois/conservative)media:
☞ Protests heat up over Park's impeachment (K. Times, 2.12)
☞ Anti-Park rallies continue as impeachment verdict nears (JoongAng Ilbo, 2.13)
Last Friday(2.10) afternoon(KST) the "Anti-chaebol Emergency Citizens’ Action Committee" started a concentrated 30-hour demo across Seoul under the motto “Grand One-Night-Two-Days March for a World without Irregular Jobs, Layoffs and Labour Union Suppression”...
About 2000 participants begun their "struggle tour" at the Special Prosecutors’ headquarters and the nearby Samsung HQ in Seoul‘s Gangnam district, before traveling a roughly 16-km route taking them to the Nat'l Assembly(S. Korean Parliament)...
...in Yeouido, Gwanghwamun Square, and to Cheongwadae(the Presidential Palace). Y'day evening, after arriving there committee members stated, “After the court’s rejection of an arrest warrant for Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, chaebol chairmen like Chung Mong-koo[Hyundai], Chey Tae-won[Hanwha], and Shin Dong-bin[Lotte] are now more likely to be let off the hook. We need to put an end to government-business collusion and the chaebol system!
Here you'll get some impressions(photographed by Shin Yoo-ah), depicting yesterday's stopover nearby the Nat'l Assembly...
One of the main headlines, published in yesterday's (bourgeois)Korea Times:
Here you can read the related article.
Meanwhile a group of dismissed workers(organized in KCTU) celebrated today the 100th day since the beginning of their sit-in struggle in front of Seoul's Central Gov't Complex(nearby Gwanghwamun) and demanded during a press conference: "Life imprisonment for Park Geun-hye!!"...
BTW. About two month ago K. Times wrote Park 'could face up to life in prison'
Two days ago(2.04) Yonhap News reported the following: People in South Korea took to the streets in central Seoul on Saturday calling for President Park Geun-hye's immediate resignation over an influence-peddling scandal involving her longtime friend. This massive rally marked the 14th candlelight vigil that has been held almost every weekend since the scandal broke out. The gathering resumed after a break for the Lunar New Year holiday last week. With over 2,100 civic groups claiming to join the rally, demonstrators took to the central streets of Seoul. They called for the president's immediate resignation and demanded the Constitutional Court speed up the impeachment trial. The number of people gathered cannot be confirmed but the square near the presidential office was crowded...(more you can read here)
On Feb. 4, 400,000 people gathered at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, calling for an extension of the Special Prosecutor’s investigation and for Park to step down immediately...(source: Hankyoreh, 2.06)
Last Saturday's rally was held under the motto "Day of action to impeach and arrest Park Geun-hye within February! Ousting ("acting president"/prime minister)Hwang Kyo-ahn, detaining all accomplices! Our Candlelight Revolution will continue until we achieve social/political reforms!"...
Reports(in Korean, but icl. lots of pics), depicting last Saturday's rally, by KCTU and KHMU you'll get here and here...
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