2332개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
Y'day(2.25) in the afternoon(KST): About 300,000 organized workers, peasants, poor people and students joined the so-called "People's General Rebellion" rally in central Seoul, nearby Gwanghwamun. The struggle rally was held under the main motto "After 4 years, Park Geun-hye's regime is at its END! OUST and ARREST her!", but included also demands such as "Dismiss Hwang Gyo-anh!(S. Korea's Prime Minister and acting "president")", "No THAAD depoloyment in S.K.!", "Say NO to the planned 'Labour Reforms'!", "Stop the suppression of labour union activities, stop the witch-hunting against KTU!", "Abolish the exploitation and oppression of the poor!", etc...
Related reports in Korean, incl. lots of pics, you'll get on LabourStart(please check out the links, posted today, 2.26)
Yonhap News Agency reported last Friday(2.17): "Lee Jae-yong, Samsung Group's de facto leader, was formally arrested Friday on charges of bribery in connection with a high-profile corruption scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye(PGH) and her friend"... and one day later(Sat., 2.18) - during the 16th weekly candlelight rally @Gwanghwamun(in central Seoul) - about 800,000 citizens celebrated, overwhelmed with joy, Lee's detention and demanded "PGH must be the next on the list(to be arrested)!!"...
Detailed reports in Korean(incl. lots of pics) you'll get here(by KCTU) and here(by 진보노동뉴스/Progressive Labour News).
Y'day(2.18) afternoon(KST) in central Seoul: Thousands of citizens joined a demo/rally(initiated by the Seongju, Gimcheon anti-THAAD resistance committees and the Won Buddhist Order) to protest the deployment of the THAAD in S. Korea...
Last month(1.20) Yonhap News reported the following: South Korean conglomerate Lotte will likely relinquish its golf club in the rural town of Seongju so the land can be used for the deployment of a U.S. air missile defense system, informed sources said...
According to officials from Lotte Group, Lotte International - the owner of the Seongju golf club - is expected to approve an exchange of the club for a piece of land in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, currently owned by the military.
The group and the government reached a tentative deal late last year to exchange the golf course for the military-owned land after the government named the southeastern county and the Lotte golf course there the strategically best site for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system...
Today, group of dismissed workers occupied, together with represenatives from Seongju, the space in front of LOTTE Department Store in Myeong-dong(central Seoul) to protest the "tentative deal" in particular, and the THAAD deployment in S. Korea in general...
Here're just some impressions(photographed by comrade Choi Ji-eun), depicting the protest...
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