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Yesterday's (bourgeois)Korea Herald(KH) reported the following: More than 200 people are participating in the march from Ansan city to the capital Seoul, mostly the parents of the 250 students from the same high school who perished when the overloaded ferry sank off the southern island of Jindo on April 16. With the first anniversary of the tragedy drawing near, the 35 kilometer march is being held to call for the sunken ferry to be brought to the surface to recover those bodies still unaccounted for(KH's full report you'll get here/Korean reports, depicting the march from Ansan to Seoul you'll get here and here)...
Last week(from Monday until Friday evening) South Korean workers from Hydis Technologies, a subsidiary of a Taiwanese company, staged protests in Taipei to press their demands that the factory should not be closed...(reports by the Taiwanese bourgeois media in English you'll get here, here and here)
During their protest rallies in Taipei the S. Korean workers and their Taiwanese supporters distributed the following info-leaflet...
And finally here're just some more impressions, depicting the first days of the protest avtivities in Taipei(a collection of Chinese independent reports, incl. pics and videos you'll get here)...
Last week(from Monday until Friday evening) South Korean workers from Hydis Technologies, a subsidiary of a Taiwanese company in South Korea, staged protests in Taipei to press their demands that the factory should not be closed.
30 of the workers, together with local support groups including the Taoyuan Confederation of Labor Unions, took the streets...
...of Taiwan's capital city in an attempt to appeal to E Ink Holdings (EIH) — the parent company of Hydis Technologies — to revoke its decision to shut down the factory and stop laying off its South Korean workers.
The representative of KMWU said E Ink had previously pledged that it would not sell the company's patents and would continue to run the factory. But it announced earlier this year that it will shut down the factory by the end of March, resulting in more than 700 job losses. The employees attempted to communicate with the company but their efforts were rejected...
Last Saturday Taipei Times reported the following: A group of South Korean workers yesterday protested inside a branch of Bank SinoPac in Taipei to highlight the decision by E Ink Holdings Inc — a subsidiary of the Yuen Foong Yu Group that owns the bank — to close a Hydis plant in South Korea on (next)Tuesday.
The protesting workers held a press conference...
...outside the bank, telling reporters that Yuen Foong Yu Group’s decision to close the plant when the company remained profitable was illogical.
Without giving advance notice, the protesters then entered the bank holding signs reading: “Chairman Ho, don’t run away,” and “Chairman Ho, don’t close the plant” — referring to Yuen Foong Yu chairman Ho Shou-chuan — and held a peaceful protest that included chanting slogans and dancing...
Before ending the protest, the workers sang the "Workers’ Fight Song" (勞動者戰歌) in Mandarin, and performed a traditional Korean ritual of respect by kneeling down and placing their foreheads on the ground to thank Taiwanese activists who had come to support them(the full report you can read here/related short videos you can watch here and here/a report in Chinese, incl. pics and a video you'll get here)...
Y'day(3.28) afternoon in Seoul's Yeouido Cultural Park: Approx. 80,000(according to the independent media, 60,000 according to the cops, 100,000 according to KGEU) unionized government employees gathered to protest against the ongoing unsocial and anti-union policy of the Park Geun-hye regime, i.e. the current S. Korean gov't. The rally(FactTV documented the entire event and you can watch the two parts here and here!) was organized by the Korean Government Employees' Union(KGEU) in preparation of/as promotion for next month's KCTU "General Strike"...
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