2332개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
December 5, activists from KCTU and other social movement organizations staged a sit-in at the lobby of Federation of Korean Industries(FKI). This federation, representing Corporate Greed, offered bribe and lobbied to the government for union busting, deregulation, and regressive labour reform. Samsung, Hyundai, POSCO, Lotte and LG should be charged for bribery and the FKI should be dissolved!(source: KCTU, 12.5, via facebook)
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), one of the nation's two umbrella unions, is organizing rallies at several spots on Yeouido where the public can participate. One is in front of the National Assembly, where an investigation into the scandal is underway. The KCTU said it will continue the rally until the vote is held. The umbrella union will also hold a gathering in front of the Federation of Korean Industries today...
...demanding that it disband for encouraging member companies to raise funds for two foundations set up by Park's disgraced confidant Choi Soon-sil.(source: Korea Times, 12.5/KCTU's press release in Korean you'll get here)
Today's (bourgeois-conservative)Korea Herald reported the following: It was the largest rally in South Korea’s history, held in an amazingly peaceful manner. Yet, the message was stern and unforgiving: President Park Geun-hye should be removed from office right now, not several months later. The protests, which flared up Saturday in Seoul and at over 60 locations throughout the country, were a clear sign of growing public anger toward the president over an influence-peddling and corruption scandal, as well as the political parties that have so far failed to remove her from office. An estimated 2.32 million - 1.7 million in Seoul - poured onto the streets to ramp up pressure on the embattled leader...(the full report you can read here)
Related detailed reports you'll get here:
☞ Anti-Park vigils keep swelling (JoongAng Ilbo, 12.4)
☞ Candlelit rally tightens noose on Park (K. Times, 12.4)
☞ 2.32 million people calling for Pres. Park’s immediate resignation (Hankyoreh, 12.4)
KCTU's impressive photo report, depicting yesterday's mass demos in Seoul, Daegu, Gwangju, Busan, Ulsan and Jeju-si you can see here (more detailed reports in Korean, incl. lots of pics, you'll get on LabourStart/please check out the links, posted today).
Video/TV reports, documenting yesterday's (struggle)events in Seoul, you'll get here(please watch the stuff posted by [팩트TV.12.03] and here(by OhmyTV, 12.03).
A sixth nationwide anti-President rally will be held in Seoul and other cities as planned on Saturday, organizers(Emergency People's Movement Calling for the Park Geun-hye Government to Step Down/박근혜정권퇴진 비상국민행동) said Tuesday...(source: Korea Times, 11.29)
Two days ago(11.29) teleSUR announced the following: Millions of Korean workers will take part in a nationwide strike Wednesday to demand the impeachment of President Park Geun Hye, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and other organizations confirmed...(more you can read here).
One day earlier(11.28) Korea Times reported that KCTU(*) said up to 300,000 union members will stage a partial walk out...
And y'day(11.30) - finally - KCTU reported(via facebook): Today 220,000 workers joined our nation wide strike...
The Ministry of Employment and Labor puts the number of people who participated in the strike at 70,000...(source: asia one, 12.1)
* PS. KCTU's membership: about 700,000 workers...(^^)
Today 220,000 workers joined our nation wide strike and 20,000 gathered in Seoul...
Students joined with class boycott...
...and famers in rural area and small shop owners in cities stop their work as well.(source: KCTU, 11.30, 20:00KST)
A short while earlier KCTU reported(via facebook) the following: Hundreds of thousands of Korean workers, farmers, students, street vendors and other Koreans are taking part in general strike and day of civil disobedience right now calling for Pres. Park's immediate resignation. We have stated clearly we wont accept Park's plan to have the national assembly debate and come up with a plan for her resignation, buying time for conservatives to regroup. We are calling for Park's immediate resignation, abolition of her anti worker and anti democratic policies and punishment for the politicians and chaebols involved in the corruption scandal surrounding her.
First (related)reports in Korean you'll get on LabourStart!
On Nov. 30 we will go on a national strike for resignation of Park Geun-hye and abolition of all the policies driven by her government. Other social movements will join us with different types of actions. The government already declared this strike illegal while international trade union movement is showing strong solidarity(*)...(source: KCTU, 11.28)
[On that day] A daytime protest is scheduled at Gwanghwamun Square at 3 p.m., followed by a street march at 4 p.m., and a candlelit protest at 6 p.m. The organizers are urging workers to take the day-off, those self-employed to shut down, and college students to boycott classes. The KCTU said up to 300,000 union members will stage a partial walk out...(source: K. Times, 11.28)
* Related article:
☞ Global unions in support of S. Korean general strike (IndustriALL, 11.28)
Rallies against Park Geun-hye will continue until the day of her resignation, even on weekdays, organizers of the rallies said Monday. They said the Saturday rallies, as well as daily candlelit protests on weekdays, will be held in December in front of Seoul Finance Center near Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul. "The concentrated voice of the public protesting against the President over numerous influence-peddling allegations involving her confidant Choi Soon-sil shows no sign of abating," said an official of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(KCTU), one of the organizers...(source: K. Times, 11.28)
Today's S. Korean (bourgeois newspaper)Korea Times reported the following: Park Geun-hye is no longer the President for those who poured onto the streets for candlelit protests in Seoul...
...and other major cities nationwide, Saturday. In the biggest anti-government rally in the country's history, more than 1.9 million protesters came out to demand Park's resignation — 1.5 million at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul and about 400,000 in other areas, according to organizers. The cold snap and snow did not deter people, furious about the presidential scandal involving Park's friend Choi Soon-sil, from taking to the streets for a fifth candlelit rally...(the complete report you can read here)
Related articles:
☞ 1.9 MILLION citizens storm the streets... (K. Times, 11.26/incl.video)
☞ Candles become torches as 1.9 million gather... (Hankyoreh, 11.27)
☞ Vigils hit record of 1.9 million (JoongAng Ilbo, 11.27)
Related reports(incl. lots of pics) in Korean you'll get here:
☞ 전국 190만 집결, 역대 최대 인파 운집…”박근혜 퇴진” (참세상, 11.26)
☞ 5차 촛불집회 전국 190만 모여...“퇴진이 답” (KHMU, 11.27)
☞ 11월26일 5차 촛불집회... (KCTU, 11.27)
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