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The Ssangyong Motor chapter of the Korea Metal Workers’ Union (KMWU) has set up a memorial site for Kim Ju-jung(*) since July 3. Kim took his own life on June 27 after a fierce struggle to be reinstated at Ssangyong Motor following an unjust mass layoff in 2009. Toward the end of his life, Kim was caught up in a massive credit and debt crisis. The memorial has been set up in front of Deoksugung Palace’s Daehanmun Gate in Seoul. Labor rights activists and civic demonstrators have commented that government inaction has indirectly contributed to the deaths of 30 workers since the mass layoff...(source: Hankyoreh, 7.14)

To support the still exising memorial site(@Daehanmun) the activist group CulturalAction/문화연대 organized for today(7.22) a "Day of Solidarity"...

Here'll you'll get some impressions, photographed by Choi Hon-guk depicting today's "Day of Solidarity"...

And a short while ago comrade 이기철 published the following impressive video...

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☞ Ongoing attacks against SsangYong memorial site in central Seoul.. (7.04)