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Weekend Reading (MUST READ!!):
A Nation of Racist Dwarfs
Kim Jong-il's regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought
By Christopher Hitchens
Visiting North Korea some years ago, I was lucky to have a fairly genial "minder" whom I'll call Mr. Chae. He guided me patiently around the ruined and starving country, explaining things away by means of a sort of denial mechanism and never seeming to lose interest in the gargantuan monuments to the world's most hysterical and operatic leader-cult. One evening, as we tried to dine on some gristly bits of duck, he mentioned yet another reason why the day should not long be postponed when the whole peninsula was united under the beaming rule of the Dear Leader. The people of South Korea, he pointed out, were becoming mongrelized. They wedded foreigners—even black American soldiers, or so he'd heard to his evident disgust—and were losing their purity and distinction. Not for Mr. Chae the charm of the ethnic mosaic, but rather a rigid and unpolluted uniformity.
I was struck at the time by how matter-of-factly he said this, as if he took it for granted that I would find it uncontroversial. And I did briefly wonder whether this form of totalitarianism, too (because nothing is more "total" than racist nationalism), was part of the pitch made to its subjects by the North Korean state. But I was preoccupied, as are most of the country's few visitors, by the more imposing and exotic forms of totalitarianism on offer: by the giant mausoleums and parades that seemed to fuse classical Stalinism with a contorted form of the deferential, patriarchal Confucian ethos.
Karl Marx in his Eighteenth Brumaire wrote that those trying to master a new language always begin by translating it back into the tongue they already know. And I was limiting myself (and ill-serving my readers) in using the pre-existing imagery of Stalinism and Eastern deference. I have recently donned the bifocals provided by B.R. Myers in his electrifying new book The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters(*), and I understand now that I got the picture either upside down or inside out. The whole idea of communism is dead in North Korea, and its most recent "Constitution," "ratified" last April, has dropped all mention of the word. The analogies to Confucianism are glib, and such parallels with it as can be drawn are intended by the regime only for the consumption of outsiders. Myers makes a persuasive case that we should instead regard the Kim Jong-il system as a phenomenon of the very extreme and pathological right. It is based on totalitarian "military first" mobilization, is maintained by slave labor, and instills an ideology of the most unapologetic racism and xenophobia.
These conclusions of his, in a finely argued and brilliantly written book, carry the worrisome implication that the propaganda of the regime may actually mean exactly what it says, which in turn would mean that peace and disarmament negotiations with it are a waste of time—and perhaps a dangerous waste at that.
Consider: Even in the days of communism, there were reports from Eastern Bloc and Cuban diplomats about the paranoid character of the system (which had no concept of deterrence and told its own people that it had signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty in bad faith) and also about its intense hatred of foreigners. A black Cuban diplomat was almost lynched when he tried to show his family the sights of Pyongyang. North Korean women who return pregnant from China—the regime's main ally and protector—are forced to submit to abortions. Wall posters and banners depicting all Japanese as barbarians are only equaled by the ways in which Americans are caricatured as hook-nosed monsters. (The illustrations in this book are an education in themselves.) The United States and its partners make up in aid for the huge shortfall in North Korea's food production, but there is not a hint of acknowledgement of this by the authorities, who tell their captive subjects that the bags of grain stenciled with the Stars and Stripes are tribute paid by a frightened America to the Dear Leader.
Myers also points out that many of the slogans employed and displayed by the North Korean state are borrowed directly—this really does count as some kind of irony—from the kamikaze ideology of Japanese imperialism. Every child is told every day of the wonderful possibility of death by immolation in the service of the motherland and taught not to fear the idea of war, not even a nuclear one.
The regime cannot rule by terror alone, and now all it has left is its race-based military ideology. Small wonder that each "negotiation" with it is more humiliating than the previous one. As Myers points out, we cannot expect it to bargain away its very raison d'etre.
All of us who scrutinize North Korean affairs are preoccupied with one question. Do these slaves really love their chains? The conundrum has several obscene corollaries. The people of that tiny and nightmarish state are not, of course, allowed to make comparisons with the lives of others, and if they complain or offend, they are shunted off to camps that—to judge by the standard of care and nutrition in the "wider" society—must be a living hell excusable only by the brevity of its duration. But race arrogance and nationalist hysteria are powerful cements for the most odious systems, as Europeans and Americans have good reason to remember. Even in South Korea there are those who feel the Kim Jong-il regime, under which they themselves could not live for a single day, to be somehow more "authentically" Korean.
Here are the two most shattering facts about North Korea. First, when viewed by satellite photography at night, it is an area of unrelieved darkness. Barely a scintilla of light is visible even in the capital city. (See this famous photograph.) Second, a North Korean is on average six inches shorter than a South Korean. You may care to imagine how much surplus value has been wrung out of such a slave, and for how long, in order to feed and sustain the militarized crime family that completely owns both the country and its people.
But this is what proves Myers right. Unlike previous racist dictatorships, the North Korean one has actually succeeded in producing a sort of new species. Starving and stunted dwarves, living in the dark, kept in perpetual ignorance and fear, brainwashed into the hatred of others, regimented and coerced and inculcated with a death cult: This horror show is in our future, and is so ghastly that our own darling leaders dare not face it and can only peep through their fingers at what is coming.
http://www.slate.com/id/2243112
* For more please read also: "The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves..." (Reviewed by A. Lankov)
Related:
In the 1990s groups of neo-nazis visited North Korea (resp. its diplomatic mission/embassy in Berlin) by invitation. These were neo-nazis out of the most evil terrorist fascist groups existing in Germany. They call themselves “national socialists” and use the old fascist demagogy of a "national and social movement” and of “German socialism”. They wanted to get to know the “national socialism of Korea”. For example: By invitation of the “Academy of Juche Science” these fascists, who all are members of the “Society for the Propaganda of Juche Ideology in Germany”, visited North Korea in April 1995 for two weeks. They were even welcomed by a secretary of the ruling (North)Korean Workers' Party. Afterwards the fascists praised the “national socialism” of (North)Korea in whole Germany. (source: Unity & Struggle, Oct. 1997)
Yesterday's (bourgeois) Korea Times wrote following:
Is Media Center Taking Conservative Tone?
The Media Center, opened in 2002 and located on the fifth floor of the Ilmin Museum in Gwanghwamun, is a public cultural organization offering media education programs.
"We helped citizens to communicate socially though video clips, educated them about the media and rented out resources," said a representative of Mediact, the center's former operator.
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) funds the center's operation and selects the operator. When it opened, the Association of Korean Independent Film and Video (AKIFV) established Mediact and was given operational control of the Media Center after signing a contract with the council.
'Members of Mediact International Solidarity protest Tuesday in front of the Ministry of Culture, Sports
and Tourism for depriving Mediact of its contract to run Media Center, a state-subsidized media
education facility, and hiring a conservative organization as new operator' (K. Times, 2.03)
However, in April last year the Board of Audit and Inspection ordered the AKIFV to pay back the subsidy that was provided to Mediact for 2008 to 2009, alleging a misuse of funds. Additionally, KOFIC opened the operating contract to public bidding instead of renewing its contract with the AKIFV.
The Citizen's Video Cultural Organization (CVCO) was selected as the new operator, despite Mediact's claims that it had done nothing wrong.
Observers suspect that the change was part of the government's efforts to bring a more conservative tone to the nation's media sector.
The CVCO was established on Jan. 6 this year and is headed by Prof. Kim Jong-kuk of Hongik University, who also works for the conservative "New Right" cultural organization, Cultural Future Forum.
Mediact claimed the selection was a setback to media democracy in Korea and filed an online petition titled "Media and Democracy in South Korea: Save Mediact." Across the world, 600 people had signed the petition as of Tuesday. They submitted the petition to the culture ministry and the KOFIC.
Mahbub Alam, a Bangladeshi actor who starred in the Korean movie "Bandhobi" last year, supported Mediact at a press conference in front of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and Tourism, Tuesday.
"Independent movies are a place that allow for minorities to communicate, not only those who have money and power," Alam said. "I want to create a media education program in my home country and Mediact is a role model."
KOFIC Chairman Cho Hee-moon rebutted any suggestion of ideology in changing the contractor. Cho is considered a conservative figure in the movie world and worked for the presidential transition committee of current President Lee Myung-bak.
He said most applicants for the operator position were newly founded organizations and the KOFIC went through the proper selection process at a press conference Monday. Cho said he couldn't renew the contract with Mediact since it was suspected of misusing the subsidy.
"The core of the suspicion is why Mediact was eliminated and how trustworthy the new organization is. Our efforts to choose the best operator have been ignored," Cho said.
Mediact refuted Cho's remarks, saying they were contradictory as the KOFIC considers Mediact to be a newly established organization while recognizing its connection to the former operator AKIFV.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/02/117_60242.html
SAVE MediACT!! - International Solidarity:
☞ Int'l Day Of Action To Support MediAct
☞ SAVE Mediact! 厳重警備のなか韓国大使館抗議アクション
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☞ MEDIACT영상미디어센터
Migrants' Trade Union (MTU) published yesterday following "Open Letter to the Korean Workers":
The Strife of the Migrant Workers
The Korean migrant worker policy is like a faulty wiring design that sooner or later would blow up in our faces. How effective is it to be able to fix this "broken" situation? Like the faulty wiring design that blows up our fuse or appliance, the migrant policy both in the labor and immigration laws are flawed to start with. The migrants are not the problem. It is the system.
Knowing this, will you allow that policy to destroy the lives of thousands of people? I am not only speaking of the lives of the migrant workers per se but of all the Korean society.
First of all, regardless of their claim that the migrant workers share the same rights as the Korean workers, in reality and in practice we all know that this is not true. Similarly, under the past dictatorship during the 70's and 80's the Korean labor force then are like the migrant workers today. Both of us have been heavily suppressed and have been denied access to labor and human rights.
Pick any workplace where there are migrant workers and most definitely these workers are the ones who would be doing the most difficult, dirtiest and dangerous work. They are usually the first ones to come in and the last ones to leave the workplace day in and day out. It is also very common that migrant workers are powerless in refusing overtime work despite their exhaustion or physical condition. They are always expected to work faster, longer, and more than their Korean co-workers. On top of all of this, the migrants are commonly cheated out of their salaries, benefits and other compensation.
The flawed Employment Permit System and the Immigration policies/laws are like that faulty wiring system. The revisions and amendments are like the fuse in that fusebox. They only offer ineffective solutions and will not really address the true problem. No matter how many revisions the EPS undergoes, it will still not be able to fix the situation of the migrant workers in Korea because the are designed to protect a self-serving interest(government's/capitalist's) and not the interest of the migrants. No matter how much information they get from the migrant population as prescribed by the new Immigration Law (fingerprinting requirement for foreigners) it will not discourage migrants from becoming undocumented if they choose to. It would not stop the few individuals who would resort to commiting crimes, fraud and misdemeanor. Just like in the US, it only will only incur unnescessary expenditures for the government without achieving any relevant goal. Apart from violating the freedom of the individual's privacy and freedom from persecution, this will only promote distrust and discrimination towards migrants and all foreigners.
In the past, quite a number of documented workers have lost their visa due to circumstances that are beyond their control. They have either lost their job for reasons such as company bankruptcy, sexual/violence and abuse, unpaid wages,were illegally terminated from their companies and other labor violations. Under the current policy, an EPS worker will now be able to change his or her workplace more than 3 times. If the conditions or reason for termination of the working relations are due to the employers fault, the change will not be counted. Just recently we have been able to experience the ineffectivity of this law. The reason lies not only on the particular law itself but in the protocol of it's application. The internal protocol of the Ministry of Labor is not to protect the migrants. The protocol is how they could appease the advocates for human and labor rights, how they could build a better (albeit, superficial) image for the Korean labor system while they prioritize the protection of the businesses and owners and NOT the migrants.
Just recently, we have been receiving a lot of cases from other EPS workers who have lost their chance to be re-employed because of their employers negligence. The Job centers upon advisement from the immigration office are now strictly enforcing the more than 1-month application period for the migrant workers re-application of contracts. This current practice in turn, makes a new batch of undocumented workers, casting a shadow of doubt in the real intentions of the crackdown and their claim that they want to keep the undocumented migrant population at a minimum. On one hand they intensify the crackdown by setting quotas for arrests, on the other hand they make more undocumented workers by introducing ineffective laws and practices. (Instead of importing new, and relatively unexperienced labor wouldn't it be easier for the government to just legalize the more experienced undocumented workers here? Is this how they could supply cheaper labor to the business owners? Is it their intention to eliminate the more experienced undocumented workers because the workers who have stayed here for more than 6 years onwards receive higher wages and are more empowered in knowing their entitlement to the law? Or is it their means of intimidating workers to be more submissive to their employers so that they would not run the risk of losing documentation? Or in the case of undocumented workers, so they will not run the risk of being reported to the immigration?)
Secondly, these inequality between migrants and local workers subverts the existing labor laws and practices. If the migrant workers are forced to provide cheaper labor than the Korean workers, it would then lower the standards both in wages and practices for all workers regardless of their nationality. The business owners and capitalist would rather spend less for more gain and the current migrant labor situation is designed to provide that cheap, disposable, easily controllable labor. Migrants are heavily disagvantaged and are forced to comply. All of us will suffer if we allow this system to continue.
Third, under the Lee administration, Korea is taking a forked-road approach with regards to foreigners. They try to build up the image of a multi-cultural Korea through their advertising and re-structuring in all fronts (education, image-building, etc.) in the name of multi-culturalism. With regards to migrant workers and labor in general the proposed policies are generally taking the opposite turn. Their propaganda against the criminality of the migrant workers and how we are responsible in turning our residential areas into slums are contemptible.
Because of the crackdown, the migrants either imprison themselves in their homes, others suffer from paranoia, others commit suicide or inflict self-injury to escape arrest, and in some isolated cases, migrants fight back to protect themselves or are driven to violence because of their insufferable conditions. The large majority go about their lives with a subservient attitude towards the demands of the Korean society, from the laws, to their company superiors and korean co-workers, to the ordinary Koreans they meet. Their avoidance of any sort of conflict pave the way to their own exploitation.
Migrants are forced into that situation because of the system and financial standing. Not because it is a part of their nature or culture. (They are forced to live in the Korean slums because it is what they can afford. While a few are forced into taking extreme measures to defend themselves such as during crackdowns, rarely will you find migrants that resort to violence in order to seek redress from the violence and abuse that they have suffered. I am not condoning the violent actions of the migrants but rather, I am providing an insight of how desperation can lead to a tragic end.)
Now more than ever, with the Lee adminstration's tyrannical policy against the labor movement, we the workers have to unite to fight against a common foe. We need to fight injustice and we need to protect the rights that our martyrs have paid for with their lives and their future.
It is relatively easy for the Korean unions to organize the migrant workers. It is also relatively easy to understand the situation of the migrant workers because aside from the immigration issue, the labor conditions we are suffering today are the same conditions that the Korean workers went through during the dictatorship. Korea had also been a labor exporting country in the past. Through this commonality, we can build on a better understanding.
Today, it is imparative for us to know the working conditions of each region, of each sector. It is imperative for us to teach them (Koreans and migrants) that we share the same labor rights. It is imparative for us teach them the importance of unity and working together and protecting each other. It is imperative for us to show them the power of unity and unionism.
The migrants will listen because all of us are frustrated by our situation. Migrants are FORCED to accept as fact, ...that being alone in a foreign land, speaking a foreign tounge, having foreign features... being a foreign worker, ...we are nothing but slaves and will always be treated as such. We will always be the lower-class minority. If this is the case, where is our justice?
It is time for us to break free from this prejudice. If the Korean workers accepts us and welcomes us like brother or sisters, if we are accepted as equals.., we, the migrant workers, will not stand behind you... will walk side by side with you and we will fight with you all the way.
I wish to live in a world that is not divided by border, by color, by language, by class nor religion...
I wish to live in a world where no one will die because of hunger, war, violence or poverty...
You can call me a dreamer... you can call me delusional... so be it.
If my dreams.., if my delusions.., are the fuel that feeds the passion in my heart to fight for what is good and what is right...
I will gladly embrace them. For in knowing that my life had a purpose makes life worth living.
-MPaulos
http://migrant.nodong.net/?document_srl=26460#0
Today's (bourgeois) Korea Times published following piece:
Life of Labor Fighter to Be Newly Interpreted
Chun Tae-il (Jeon Tae-il), a labor activist who burnt himself to death at the age of 22 on Nov. 13, 1970 at the height of Korea's development-oriented authoritarian rule, will be promoted as a pioneer in Korea's human rights movement.
The Chun Tae-il Memorial Foundation (CMF) announced Monday a memorial festival for Chun will be held through by grass-root organizations in October ahead of the 40th anniversary of his death.
Chang Ki-pyo, chairman of the foundation, said he would set up a committee for the festival with the labor circle, the political world and religious figures within the month.
The festival will hold a concert, samulnori performances and poetry recitals to remember Chun's spirit of humanism.
Jeon Tae-il monument (Seoul, Cheonggyecheon, near Pyeonghwa Market/평화시장)
Chun has been portrayed as martyr. Park Kay-hyun, secretary general of the foundation, said that this change of approach is aimed at bringing him closer to the heart of the public.
The foundation will combine the existing labor awards and the literature awards for the "Chun Tae-il Award," and expand the number of areas to be cited.
It will start an educational program for migrant workers as well. "We will help migrant workers protect their rights by themselves," Park said.
"Chun's spirit can be summarized as a love for humanity and it is meaningful in such a polarized and materialistic society. These awards will give prominence to Chun as a universally desirable human character."
According to Park, foreign countries such as Germany gave material and emotional support when the foundation was built.
The foundation is trying to renew the image of Chun by emphasizing his humane aspects. It also published a new edition of a critical biography of Chun written by lawyer Cho Yong-nae last year, which was originally written in 1983.
Chun was born in the southeastern city of Daegu in 1948. He worked as a garment cutter at Pyeonghwa Market. By then, youngsters in sweatshops were forced to work 16-hour shifts.
He organized his colleagues to start the so-called labor movement. He requested increasing wages, shorter working hours and health check-ups for the workers.
However, his attempts to make a better labor environment were turned down by employers and indifferent politicians.
His self-immolation was reported internationally. With its social reverberations, some 2,500 labor unions were organized after Chun's death.
His life was cinematized in 1995 in the film "A Single Spark." Actor Hong Kyung-in played the role of the labor activist who took his life for the labor movement.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/02/117_60089.html
At the General Meeting of delegates, held last Thursday(1.28), the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) selected Kim Yeong-hun as its new chairman.
Kim, a railway worker and former head of the Korean Transport Workers’ Union, will be leading the organization for the next three years.
"On his shoulders is the task of breathing new air into the KCTU as it enters its fifteenth year and restoring the organization to its previously-held standing", The Hankyoreh wrote before yesterday.
But the S. Korean ruling class and its mouthpiece (the bourgeois media) already predicts - and celebrates in advance - a possible "radical change" in the KCTU:
KCTU elects moderate to lead it into the future
- Kim pledged that he would “eliminate the KCTU’s outdated labor protests and deepening intrafactional activities.”
- Kim will change the union’s long-standing aggressive manner. As the largest moderate faction inside KCTU supported Kim in the election, labor issue observers say it is very unlikely for Kim to stage radical actions, such as a general strike...
Source: JoongAng Ilbo (1.30)
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☞ Labor group picks moderate leader (K. Herald, 1.30)
☞ KCTU’s new leadership task (Hankyoreh, 1.30)
☞ 민주노총 제49차 정기대의원대회 개최 (KCTU, 1.28)
MEDIACT, an important S. Korean resource/center for independent media education and activism is under massive threat to be terminated by the "ruling" LMB administration!
IMC S.K. (yeah, it's still "alive"!??) published a few days ago following piece:
Media and democracy in South Korea: Save Mediact
We join those concerned over the regression of democracy in South Korea that has now taken the form of an attack on Mediact, South Korea’s first public media center that has since its founding represented South Korea internationally as a leader in communication rights and democracy, media literacy, intellectual property rights, and public interest media...
Since 2002, Mediact has stewarded a contract to support independent film and video makers, media policy developmet, lifelong media education and public access. For seven years, it has provided an infrastructure focusing on the potential of creating a public media sector based on both shifting technological possibilities of access to the media and ongoing political democratization processes taking place in South Korea.
Mediact’s facilities are funded by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), what is supposed to be an autonomous organization funded by the central government to promote Korean cinema within the country and overseas, and an independent activist organization managed by the Association of Korean Independent Film & Video (KIFV). We are highly alarmed by the new KOFIC Chairman's recent decision to dismantle Mediact and force its staff to resign as of February 1.
As Mediact’s counterparts in the international community, we have been long inspired by Mediact’s visionary leadership in the areas of media policy, media education, media production and communication rights. We, the undersigned, urge the government of President Lee Myung-bak to recognize its responsibility for the democracy that has regressed and reorient itself as a government that respects the people's sovereignty and South Korea's continued leadership in media and communication rights. We ask KOFIC together with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to reverse this decision immediately.
http://indymedia.cast.or.kr/drupal/?q=ko/node/2114
Related articles in The Hankyoreh:
☞ International protest storms... (1.28)
☞ Don’t Hesitate: KOFIC should reverse its decision... (1.29)
From yesterday's Hankyoreh:
Police and Prosecutors Begin Union Attack
Members of the Korean Government Employees Union (KGEU) and Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union (KTU), who issued emergency statements, stand ready but bewildered at the charging police officer and prosecutor, who says, “You better get ready for the fight ahead!”
The police officer goes on the attack as he targets the teachers with a Lee Myung-bak administration-led investigation.
A total of 69 members of both organizations were issued police summmons on Jan. 25 for allegedly joining and paying (membership)dues to the Democratic Labor Party (DLP).
Meanwhile, a sign taped to the prosecutor’s back reveals that they have actually been hired as thugs to investigate. Observers are saying that the leaders are being targeted by the Lee Myung-bak administration in an attempt to paint the recent not-guilty verdict over KTU’s emergency statements last year in political colors.
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_entertainment/401298.html
A (daily updated!!) collection of related articles you'll find on LabourStart!
PS:
AFAIK: the DLP is just a product of the KCTU! And KTU, KGEU are KCTU members^^
The DLP, according to Wikipedia: "The Democratic Labor Party is a Left-wing... party in South Korea... It was founded in the effort to create a political wing for the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions..."
Today's (bourgeois) Korea Herald(KH) published following reader's letter (related to it's article "Seoul's redevelopment dilemma"):
I lived in Seoul from 2003 to 2007. In the beginning, the city including my residential area in Hannam-dong still had many nice corners to live. Cozy neighborhoods, small private businesses and eateries, low-rise housing districts with gardens, great views of the neighboring mountains and rivers - like cities in advanced countries.
In the case of housing projects, I would better call it reckless destruction of what the local people have developed over decades. On the Gangbuk side, one could call it the "Gangnamification" process, turning good old Seoul into a faceless concrete jungle. The result: Too-high buildings, too narrow, more steel and asphalt, more people, more traffic, and less space, less green, less sunshine, less free views. Exactly the opposite of what city planners in advanced and emerging countries are currently doing.
In advanced democracies it is almost impossible to kick residents or small businesses out of their place, simply because the city mayor and landowners like to have "redevelopment" right on their land. Before I moved to Korea, I believed this could only be practiced in places like China.
And for the low-income people in old, run-down districts: Why not give them some money as an incentive to renovate and upgrade their existing buildings? This is what we call "redevelopment" in European cities, and what Seoul did until 2005 in a few small-scale campaigns. Much less planning, bargaining, painful arguing and time would be needed, much less concrete would be wasted.
My experience: Seoul has no lack of apartments. It has too many people. Far too many. It is mercilessly overcrowded. World class cities in advanced countries have stable populations, mostly less than a million. And their population density is much less than that of Seoul and Calcutta. The capital of my home country, Berlin, is the size of Seoul, but only has 3.4 million inhabitants. And so it will remain.
Another example: The most attractive global city in the world, according to annual surveys with managers and diplomats, is Geneva, Switzerland. Under 200,000 people only. No matter if the whole world would like to live there - locals would never allow destruction of their old quarters and lush parks only to turn them into high rise development zones. They want to keep it first in world style and top in class. Whoever wants to move in, has to pay the price - that's the market principle.
There is a right to housing, as professor Kim states. But there is no fundamental right for all Koreans to live in Seoul. Korea is an empty country. Only the space of Seoul and some satellite cities is fully occupied. There should be a general ban on new apartment construction.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2010/01/27/201001270050.asp
Meanwhile KH published today it's last piece (by M. Lamers and H. Chang) on the "redevelopment" issue in the S.K. capital:
☞ Erasing the past to build the future
Solidarity With the Struggle of Migrant Workers in S.K.!
Agit-prop Rally/Candlelight Vigil in Seoul
Tomorrow(Wed.), 7 p.m., Namguro Stn.(subway line no. 7), exit no. 3
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