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Since almost ten days residents of Miryang were clashing with "officials"(workers and hired thugs) from Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and riot cops in their protest against the power company’s resumption of the construction of 52 transmission towers...
Today's Korea Herald reported the following:
Construction of Miryang power-line towers halted
Korea Electric Power Corp. agreed to halt work on high-voltage transmission towers in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, on Wednesday while a group of experts reviews alternative plans.
The company and residents accepted the parliamentary Trade, Industry and Energy Committee’s mediation measures.
The nine-member group ― consisting of experts picked by the residents, KEPCO and the National Assembly ― will review various alternatives for 40 days.
The panel will give priority to plans for circumventing the Miryang area, but will also be allowed to analyze the feasibility of building underground power lines and other possible alternatives.
The group will be required to submit a report on their findings, including issues on which consensuses have not been reached, to the parliamentary Trade, Industry and Energy Committee.
The committee will then draw up solutions to the problem based on the report, which KEPCO and the Miryang residents will be required to follow.
The construction on the 52 transmission towers, which are part of a 161-tower, 90.5-kilometer line connecting the Shin-Kori nuclear power plant in Ulsan to a substation in Changnyeong, South Gyeongsang Province, resumed on May 20 after being stalled eight months due to opposition from residents of the area.
Of the 161 towers, 109 in other areas have been completed.
Miryang residents have opposed the towers from the outset, citing a 2003 World Health Organization report warning of the possible carcinogenic effects of such facilities.
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130529000861
Mainly elderly residents of the southeastern city of Miryang(South Gyeongsang Province) are clashing now since one week with "officials"(workers and hired thugs) from Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and riot cops in their protest against the power company’s resumption of the construction of 52 transmission towers there after eight months of suspension.
"As of yesterday, eighth day of protests, 18 people have been injured as local residents try to block KEPCO from bringing in equipment to construct electricity transmission towers", today's Hankyoreh reported...
Related articles:
☞ KEPCO takes legal action against poor, elderly protestors (Hankyoreh, 2012.7.06)
☞ KEPCO, Miryang residents clash (Korea Times, 5.20)
☞ Controversial power-line works resume amid strong protests (K. Herald, 5.20)
☞ Elderly people injured in pylon protest (UCAnews, 5.21)
☞ Elderly residents in a tooth and nail fight against electricity towers (Hankyoreh, 5.22)
☞ No end in sight for dispute over Miryang power-line towers (K. Herald, 5.28)
More related articles/reports(incl. lots of pics) in Korean you'll get here(LabourStart)!!
Letters from a conscientious prisoner(No. 125), Lee Jong-hwa(*), today(5.26) since 29 days in jail(for his resistance against the Jeju Naval Base project).
As a poet and writer, he drafted numerous letters. A few of those are in English(**)...
* You may write him solidarity letters to the following address:
Lee Jong-hwa
161 Ora-2 dong(Jeju Prison)
Jeju City
Jeju, THE PEACE ISLAND
South Korea
* To see a collection of his letters, please check out:
http://cafe.daum.net/peacekj/496a/854
http://cafe.daum.net/peacekj/496a/860
Yesterday(5.21) in central Seoul: 49 activists of Korean Gov't Employees' Union incl. Kim Jung-nam(KGEU's chairperson), who have been requesting a meeting with minister of public administration for union recognition and reinstatement 135 dismissed workers since May 1, were arrested for conducting an "illegal" sit-in protest in front of the Ministry of Security and Public Administration(for more info please read "South Korea: 49 trade unionists arrested"!!)...
KGEU's yesterday's report(incl. a lot of photos) you'll get here! More related and updated (Korean)articles/reports you'll find on LabourStart...
Since more than 3 month our comrades Yeo Min-hui and Oh Su-yeong...
...union members of the Jaeneung Educational Institute (JEI) chapter of the Korean Educational Materials Industry Union, are occupying a 20-meter bell tower at the Hyehwa-dong cathedral in Seoul...
Last Wednesday evening in Seoul's Hyehwa-dong: About one hundred activists "celebrated" the 100th day of BELL TOWER STRUGGLE(*) with a powerful solidarity rally. Here just some impressions (source of the pics: KCTU)...
* Several detailed English articles/reports about the struggle you'll find on LabourStart!
Related:
☞ 재능투쟁 종탑100일, 재능교육 결단촉구 투쟁 결의대회 (코뮌영상네트워크/YouTube, 5.15)
☞ Interview(in Korean) with Oh Su-yeong and Yeo Min-hui (NewsCham, 5.15)
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