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Yesterday's "Day of Solidarity" rallies to support the struggle of dismissed SsangYong workers(in the afternoon in Pyeongtaek) and dismissed KOLON workers(in the late evening in Seoul/Gwacheon) has been joined by at least 1000 activists...

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On the 358th day of their struggle, dismissed Kiryung Electronics workers hold a demonstration performing an orthodox Buddhist-style prostration...

...after a press conference near the company’s headquarters in Seoul’s Dongjak district, calling for a world without irregular workers, Dec. 22. Until Dec. 26, the workers will continue their demonstration, moving from the National Assembly toward the Blue House with stops at other worker sit-in sites, including Cable and More workers in front of the Press Center Building, LG Plus and Gwanghwamun Square. The workers were dismissed after Kiryung Electronics was sold off in parts. The workers are still struggling despite a court ruling in their favor in May 2013. The company relocated their offices without telling the reinstated workers.(source: Hankyoreh, 12.23)

Related reports in Korean you'll get here, here and here. Finally here you can watch a short video, provided by Kyunghyang Shinmun(12.22)

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Last Friday(12.19), the Constitutional Court ordered the disbandment of the "left-wing" Unified 'Progressive' Party (UPP), the first such decision made in South Korea’s constitutional era, since 1948...

And yesterday's KCNA "reported" the following...

...ignoring the sad reality(provided by yesterday's Progressive Labour News)...

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Today is 8th day of the sit-in protest by Lee Chang-geun and Kim Jeong-wook, two dismissed Ssangyong Motor workers, who climbed a 70-meter smokestack in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province after their reinstatement was blocked by a Supreme Court ruling finding the automaker’s layoffs valid...

And beside a growing nationwide solidarity campaign(here you read about an extraordinary example), there's also a beginning of some kind of int'l solidarity...

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[MUST READ!] Today's Hankyoreh published the following...

The complete piece you can read here(in the Korean version you'll get also two related videos)!

Meanwhile today's Korea Times reported(related to the current 'Chimney Sit-in Struggle' in Pyeongtaek) that "Ssangyong's management declared the company would respond to their illegal protest sternly. 'They must stop the protest, which won't help solve the problem,' the company said in a statement. 'We won't negotiate and will take any legal action necessary'..."