5112개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
We always said this... But last week our "suspicions" were confirmed by two "major" bourgeois/conservative S. Korean newspapers...
Korea Times (6.24):
Migrant workers earn far less than Koreans with their average paycheck lower than that of the bottom 10 percent, a government report says. A more chilling fact is their meager wages are not increasing.
Not only do they face financial problems because of their low earnings, but this often forces them to work longer and more unsociable hours, creating increased childcare costs for those with families.
Most of their jobs belong in the category of "3Ds" ― dangerous, dirty and difficult ― jobs being shunned by Korean workers but still pivotal to society. Those jobs include factory work, cleaning and child care...
JoongAng Ilbo (6.23) published the following report:
Average wage of migrant workers falls far below local rate
The average annual salary of migrant workers in Korea is lower than that of the average pay of the bottom 10 percent of Korean workers, according to the National Tax Service.
The data released yesterday underscored that most foreign workers in Korea are employed in low-skilled, low-paying jobs that are shunned by Koreans.
Although the total amount of wages for foreign workers rose in 2008, the average pay per migrant worker fell.
In 2008, the number of foreign workers who filed tax returns tallied 344,583, a 22 percent increase from 2007.
The total amount of wages paid to migrant workers that year amounted to 4.54 trillion won ($3.84 billion), up 18.7 percent from 2007.
But the average wage of migrant workers was 13.17 million won, a 2.9 percent decline from 2007.
This was 1.43 million won lower than the average yearly income of the bottom 10 percent of Korean workers in 2008, which was 14.6 million won.
There were 7,945 foreign workers who received more than the average Korean worker’s income of about 40 million won.
This is only 2.3 percent of the total number of foreign workers. More than half of the foreign workers in the upper salary bracket received more than 80 million won.
These high-income earners were mainly concentrated in Seoul since they held white collar jobs, while the majority of blue-collar jobs are in the rest of the country.
Those foreign workers living in Seoul had the largest average income at 33.72 million won in 2008, close to the average salary of the entire Korean workforce of 38.20 million won.
However, in the rest of the country, the wage conditions of foreign workers fell far below even the bottom 10 percent of the local working population.
The city with the second highest average annual wage for foreign workers was Daejeon with 14.33 million won.
The average foreign worker salary was 12.33 million won in Busan and 10.79 million won in Gangwon.
Foreign workers in South Jeolla were the most underpaid as the average income they received was 7 million won.
Those in Gwangju, Jeju and North Jeolla were paid around 8 million won annually.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2922210
From Toronto with Love ^^
Possibly record-breaking: the city of Toronto spent nearly C$ 1 billion(*) for the security of the G8/20 leaders ("security" costs for the 2008 G8 summit in Japan were US$381m, and $30m for the 2009 London G20 summit). 19,000 cops and 1,100 private security guards were deployed to protect them...
Detailed info about the protests against the G8/20 Summit in Toronto you'll get here:
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca
http://www.g20breakdown.com
http://g20.torontomobilize.org
Here's a "picture livestream":
http://picfog.com/search/H-g20
MUST SEE! Photo report:
☞ Peaceful beginnings, violent ending as G20 protests grip Toronto
* approx. KRW 1,093,000,000,000.-
"Sixty years ago today, North Korean troops stormed across the 38th parallel into South Korea, provoking a three-year conflict...", today's Korea Times writes.
Of course(^^) the N. Korean propaganda has - surprise, surprise!! - a bit different point of view... Well, just 'enjoy' the weekend reading!!
"The Korean War started sixty years ago was a shameless, provocative robbery carried out by the American imperialists through their South Chosun puppets in order to turn our nation into a slave colony. It was the most barbarous slaughter in history", according to Rodong Shinmun (6.25).
And 'only' three years later the "U.S. imperialists - still blood-thirsty murderers, heinous war fanatics and aggressors without parallel - signed the Korean Armistice Agreement, with their knees bent before the invincible army and people of the DPRK" (☞ DPRK Committees' Joint Statement, 6.24)
And (of course!!^^) until now N.K.'s propaganda sees "the Yankees as a herd of wolves in human skin and the Koreans' sworn-enemy with whom they can not live under the same sky" (☞ Revenge-vowing Meetings Held, 6.22)...
USA's True Nature as Provocateur of Korean War
The Korean Central News Agency released a memorandum Thursday(6.24) laying bare the truth about how the U.S. imperialists launched the Korean War of aggression, 60 years since they provoked the war to achieve their ambition to dominate the world.
The memorandum disclosed the fact that the U.S. imperialists have worked hard to cover up their true colors as war provocateurs and aggressors and shift the blame onto the DPRK while falsifying the truth of history.
Laying bare the truth about how they started the war, the memorandum said: The U.S. imperialists crafted a plan to use the 38th parallel for dividing Korea and put south Korea under their occupation.
In August 1945 the U.S. was informed by Japan of its decision to accept the Potsdam Declaration and surrender to the allied forces side. Then it hatched a plot to find a "substantial solution" aimed at realizing its wild ambition to put even half of Korea under their control.
A draft document on sharing the areas formerly occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army between the USSR and the U.S. with the 38th parallel as a demarcation line was worked out according to a scenario proposed by the then U.S. President Truman. The U.S. imperialists then went into action to occupy south Korea.
At a meeting of the chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on August 13, 1945 the U.S. imperialists ordered its Far East Forces Commander MacArthur to wrest surrender from the Imperial Japanese Army in the areas under the U.S. charge including south Korea. MacArthur instructed Commander of the 24th army corps Hodge to wrest a surrender document from the Japanese army and occupy and control south Korea on behalf of the U.S.
An advance party of the 24th army corps of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces arrived at Kimpho Airport on Sept. 4, 1945 and the army corps landed in Inchon, Pusan and Mokpho from Sept. 8 to mid-October, unhindered.
The memorandum cited facts to prove that the U.S. imperialists made thorough military preparations for the Korean War.
After openly pursuing the strategy to dominate the world since the end of World War II the U.S. imperialists studied and rounded off a new world war scenario including the Korean War in real earnest to put it into practice.
The U.S. imperialists organized G-2 and G-3 at the MacArthur Command which worked out and completed "Plan A, B and C" envisaging the occupation of Korea, Manchuria and Siberia for years.
The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces drafted a military action program for "northward expedition" as part of "Plan A."
By about July 1949 the south Korean "government" rounded off the preparations to invade the DPRK at the instruction of MacArthur.
The Syngman Rhee puppet clique completely rounded off the preparations for attack by May 1950 and military operational plans were also completed by that time.
The U.S. imperialists also worked out top secret document "NSC-68" reflecting their strategy for world domination.
This was agreed upon at the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in January 1950 at the instruction of Truman and ratified at the U.S. National Security Council on April 2 to provoke the Korean War.
The U.S. imperialists started organizing the south Korean puppet army as part of the preparations for the war of aggression.
To this end, the U.S. imperialists increased the strength of the south Korean puppet army in a phased way to make it ten times as much as that of troops in the north. The puppet army was educated and trained the American way and in this course the U.S. established its prerogative of the supreme command over it.
According to the "war theory at the second phase" the U.S. imperialists ordered the south Korean puppet army to start a war, and organized the aggression troops in the offensive formation in order to allow the future involvement of the U.S. forces.
The U.S. forces in the Far East had three services just before the start of the Korean War. The Far East Forces commander took command of them.
The memorandum also recalled that the U.S. imperialists carried out unheard-of deception and camouflage offensives to commit ceaseless armed provocations against the northern half of Korea, ensure surprise attacks in the Korean War and shift the responsibility for the provocation of the war on to the DPRK.
The number of armed provocations perpetuated by the south Korean puppet army totaled more than 5 150 in three and half years from 1947 to right before the outbreak of the war.
The U.S. directly organized and commanded armed provocations in areas along the 38th parallel.
The Korean War was by no means the result of a sudden conflict at dawn on June 25, 1950. For several years before the outbreak of the war, conflicts persisted between the two sides on the peninsula and they grew fiercer under the pressure of Seoul in 1949. It was the view of some experts on the Korean issue that the Korean War actually started that year.
The U.S. imperialists created impression that all officers and men left their posts on "weekend" or did something completely irrelevant to combat power at that time.
According to the scenario of the U.S. imperialists, Syngman Rhee lifted an emergency martial law, allowed outing and outdoor lodging of the puppet troops and organized dinner parties as part of deception and camouflage offensives in a bid to cover up the true colors as provocateurs of a war just before the outbreak of the war.
On the basis of these final preparations for the Korean war the U.S. imperialists started to put their war scenario into practice.
In order to inspect and confirm on the spot the preparations for the war and issue a Zero hour, Truman dispatched the then U.S. Secretary of Defense Johnson and the then Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Bradley to the MacArthur Command in Tokyo and Adviser to the U.S. Department of State Dulles to south Korea as his special envoy. Dulles's visit to Seoul was to give the green light to the attack and assure Syngman Rhee at the highest level of the U.S. navy and air force support.
The secret war order confirmed by Dulles on the spot and finally approved by Truman was given to the Syngman Rhee puppet army.
Chae Pyong Dok, chief of the General Staff of the south Korean puppet army, issued on June 21, 1950 an order to the 1st and 2nd combat commands to commence attack on the northern half of Korea at dawn on June 25.
According to this operational plan, the south Korean puppet army launched a surprise armed invasion against the northern half of Korea in all areas along the 38th parallel at 4 a.m. on June 25 under the command of the U.S. military advisers.
The U.S. imperialists abused UN in order to cover up their true colors as war provocateurs and aggressors and shift the responsibility for the outbreak of the war on to the DPRK and launch all-out armed invasion against the DPRK.
A meeting of the UNSC was held on June 25, 1950 due to the gimmick of the U.S. imperialists and their brigandish demand and it adopted a "resolution" terming the invasion against the north "the invasion against the south."
The U.S. imperialists tried to "legalize" their aggression through UNSC "resolutions".
The UN, 2-3 hours after Truman declared that the U.S. forces are going into actions, adopted a "resolution" calling upon all the member states to give assistance to south Korea.
The history has already rightly proved the injustice of the UNSC "resolutions."
The memorandum clarified how the U.S. imperialists falsified the truth about the Korean War started by them and fabricated stories.
Whenever an opportunity presented itself they underscored the "necessity for the Syngman Rhee puppet clique to make the world recognize that south Korea was the first to be attacked," thus kicking off a false propaganda offensive about the "conquest of the south" and "southward expedition".
The U.S. imperialists craftily fabricated stories that the launch of the Korean War was "a surprise attack from the north" and an "entirely sudden event."
U.S. Ambassador in south Korea Muccio tried to realize this through his "first report" sent to the U.S. State Department on June 25, 1950.
The U.S. imperialists and their stooges, however, admitted that the Korean War broke out not because of "southward invasion" but because of northward invasion from A to Z.
The war was actually kicked off due to provocations from the south.
MacArthur who was the main player in starting the Korean War admitted that this war was his plan.
The U.S. imperialists could not utter even a single word for the time being when the truth behind the provocation of the Korean War was disclosed by the secret documents confiscated by the Korean People's Army when liberating Seoul during the war. But they came out with false documents in May 1951 to "prove" the "June 25 invasion of the south" and worked hard to falsify the truth behind the start of the war.
Even in the post-war period, too, they employed old methods to evade the responsibility for the provocation of the Korean War. In the meantime they came out with "the proposal for joint assessment between the belligerent parties" in which re-lighting through the declassification according to the "free information act" and the open-door policy of the Eastern Europe were craftily used in a bid to persistently distort the history of the provocation of the war. When the Cold War was over, they tried to play down and write off the truth behind the provocation of the war from the stand of strength guided by the American "philosophy".
The above-said moves of the U.S. imperialists and their stooges to falsify the truth about the provocation of the Korean War and fake up stories about it are aimed at perpetuating their presence in south Korea and starting another Korean war for world domination.
No matter what gimmick the U.S. imperialists may employ, they can never hide their true colors as provokers of the Korean War and aggressors, concluded the memorandum.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2010/201006/news24/20100624-25ee.html
Related articles:
☞ Frank Views from China About Korean War (Chosun Ilbo, 6.18)
☞ 'There's still evidence it was US imperialism' (Guardian, 6.25)
☞ Pyongyang's $65 trillion bill for US enmity (Asia Times, 6.25)
☞ S. Korea marks 60th anniversary of Korean War... (Yonhap, 6.25)
For more detailed info please check out wikipedia:
☞ The Korean War 1950-53
Today, for the first time since some month, thousands of KCTU activists took the streets in downtown Seoul (Jong-no district) to protest against the current labour/gov't policy of the LMB administration...
Korea Herald reported the following:
Some 5,000 members of the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions protested in Seoul on Wednesday, with affiliated workplaces going on a strike nationwide.
Despite the earlier warning of a strict response from the police, demonstrators marched through Cheong Wa Dae after a gathering in the downtown area.
They were heading to the presidential office to deliver their petition that calls for stopping the repression of the teachers’ and public servants’ unions, increasing the minimum wage, suspending the four-river project and opposing the revision of the law on assembly and demonstration.
Riot police cracked down on them for illegal occupation of two roads. During the brief clash between them, three unionists were hauled to the police station for investigation...
The police had mobilized some 4,000 riot police from 60 squadrons to the gathering area near Bosingak, a pagoda with a large bell in central Seoul.
http://www.koreaherald.com/common/List.jsp?ListId=020102000000
Related reports:
☞ 민주노총 총력투쟁 결의대회...서울로 서울로! (KCTU)
☞ 민주노총 '타임오프 철회, 최저임금 인상' 도심 집회... (NewsCham)
Some more impressions (pics) from today's KCTU protest you can see here!
Y'day: Portugal, a part of the "evil imperialist empire" (Rodong Shinmun) smashed the "Invincible Cheollima Team" (Rodong Shinmun), representing the "Workers' Paradise", aka North Korea...
But why(TFH)??
Well, here's the (simple) answer:
"Our Dear Leader Kim Jong-il gives regular tactical advice during matches using mobile phones that are not visible to the naked eye," the team's manager Kim Jong-hun told ESPN... The coach dutifully told the sports channel that Kim Jong-il developed the James-Bond technology himself... (according to Chosun Ilbo, 6.21)
But since the Cheollima Team left Pyongyang the "mobile phone" connection between the Dear Leader and his footballers is cutt off - certainly because of the ongoing US sabotage against the DPRK.
And without the wise guidance by the Dear Leader it's hard to see...
Related articles:
☞ N.K. broadcasts live match on TV for first time (pity they lost 7-0) (Guardian)
☞ Fans cheer on N.Korea at Bongeun Temple (Hankyoreh)
☞ DPRK Spanking, Live Broadcasts and the S. Africa Irony (TMH)
Updated(6.23) 'report':
☞ Kim Jong-il Blamed for N.Korea's Foolish World Cup Tactics (Chosun Ilbo)
Last Friday I added to my latest contribution, related to the PSPD/Cheonan stuff, Hankyoreh's updated news report "Far-right groups launch violent protests against PSPD"...
A while later The Marmot's Hole also took notice of the same report:
☞ Hani Upset at Violent Far Right Protests
And until now 29 halfway interesting comments were posted...
Well, although I'm not agreeing (more about it later this week...) with most of the stuff - it's worth reading!!!
Related articles:
☞ Scholars call for end to PSPD witch-hunt (Hankyoreh, 6.22)
☞ Violent protests unjustified (JoongAng ilbo, 6.21)
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And here you can (MUST!!^^) listen to the (somehow^^) corresponding "soundtrack"!
<행사개요>
12시. <사전마당> 열린참여마당
-추모사업회 : 열사평전마당(평전, 백서, 추모곡CD 등 전시판매) - 10여단위
열사이야기마당(열사에게 다짐하는 글남기기) - 논의 중
-참여단체 : 4단위 확정후 계속 신청받고 있는 중
*열사추모 및 투쟁영상 상영 : 본 무대 LED영상
3시30분. <길놀이> : 풍물패
3시50분. <집단 분향>
4시. <영상>
4시10분. <본 문화제>
-민중의례 / 내외빈 소개
-여는말 (추모연대 의장)
-추모춤 (춤꾼 이삼헌과 몸짓패 들꽃의 연합공연)
-유족발언 (유가협 회장)
-추모공연 (류금신 / 박준)
-추모 및 투쟁발언 : 쌍용투쟁 희생자 추모 및 투쟁발언
고 서정민강사 추모 및 투쟁발언
-추모공연 (장애인노래패 시선)
-추모 및 투쟁발언 : 고 문수스님 추모 및 4대강 투쟁발언)
-추모공연 (전국철거민연합)
-추모시 낭독 : 용산관련 유족 자녀
-추모공연 (수도권추모사업회)
-추모공연 (풍물패 터울림)
-추모공연 (문예팀 합창)
-추모공연 (노래공장, 지민주, 꽃다지)
-추모공연 (문예팀 합창‘누가나에게 이길을 가라하지 않았네’)
-편지글 낭독 : 추모사업회 (열사에게 다짐하는 글)
-참가자 다함께 노래‘함께가자 우리 이길을’
People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) sent a letter, raising suspicions about the cause of the Cheonan sinking to the U.N.S.C. - and S. Korea's "rulers" and their supporters are really pissed off...
Here the latest developments in regard to PSPD's letter:
Today: During a parliamentary session S.K.'s prime minister Chung Un-chan called PSPD's letter questioning the U.N. over investigations into the sinking the Cheonan warship “an act against the nation,” forewarning punishments against the largest left-leaning group...
Tuesday: Members of war veterans’ groups (i.e. f*cking old reactionaries!!) clash with police
while trying to storm the offices of the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy in downtown
Seoul. The veterans were angry about the group’s letter to the UN disputing the government’s
investigation of the March 26 sinking of the Cheonan warship.
Wednesday: F*cking old ractionaries "protesting" in front of PSPD's office...
Conservatives blast PSPD (Hankyoreh cartoon, 6.16)
Prime Minister Chung Un-chan, a public prosecutor and a representative of the conservative media jointly blow vuvuzelas, a long-standing tradition in South Africa’s football history, at a member of the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD). The vuvuzela is labeled “redbaiting.”
The PSPD member is taken aback at the collective “aeng!” coming from the vuvuzelas and covers his ears. In his pocket, there is the letter to the member nations of the UN Security Council.
Meanwhile, President Lee Myung-bak stands alone and blows a Vuvuzela labeled “The enforcement of Four Major Rivers Restoration Project,” seemingly caught up in his own world.
Prior to the joint civilian-military investigation team’s briefing at the UN Security Council on the sinking of the Cheonan on June 14, the PSPD submitted a letter to the U.N. highlighting contentious aspects of the investigation’s findings on June 10.
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_entertainment/425908.html
Related articles:
☞ Which country do you belong to? (Hankyoreh, 6.16)
☞ Legal sanctions against PSPD unlikely (K. Times, 6.16)
☞ South Korean "NGOs" Attack PSPD (DailyNK, 6.16)
☞ A question of loyalty (JoongAng Ilbo, 6.17)
☞ Chung blasts group for Cheonan letter (K. Herald, 6.17)
Updated news report:
☞ Far-right groups launch violent protests against PSPD (Hankyoreh, 6.18)
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