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Yesterday's Korea Times wrote the following: "'The South Korean government views the Olympics as a stepping stone to build peace and trust with North Korea, offering the regime a chance to show global society it is a normal country,' Moon Chung-in, special adviser to the President, said in a speech at the Paris Institute of Political Studies..."(more you can read here)
North Korea... a normal country??
Here're some characteristics of N. Korea's political system:
- Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
- Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
- Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
- Supremacy of the Military
- Controlled Mass Media
- Obsession with National Security
- Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
PS. These are just some parts of the 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism...(*)
And the S. Korean gov't - at least according to Moon Chung-in(special adviser to the President) - wants, by using the (Pyeongchang Winter)Olympics. to offer the (N. Korean)regime a chance to show [the]global society [that]it is a normal country?? Questions upon questions!!!
* Related articles:
☞ The D.P.R.K.: A 21st Century Fascist State (PPR, 2017.1.29)
☞ Alt-Reich: North Korea and the Far Right (The Diplomat, 2017.7.06)
President Moon Jae-in granted pardons to 6,444 people Friday, including an ex-liberal lawmaker, evictees involved in the deadly Yongsan disaster and migrant workers, which the presidential office said aims to help ordinary people without money or power and foster unity... [but]Han Sang-gyun, chief of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions who was convicted of leading illegal rallies, was not pardoned. Han is serving a three-year prison term for leading anti-government rallies in protest against ousted President Park Geun-hye’s labor policies in 2015...(source: Korea Herald, 12.29)
Yesterday's (conservative)JoongAng Ilbo reported the following: Employees at Shinsegae Group will only work 35 hours a week starting next year, five hours less than they currently work, but their salaries will remain the same. Korea’s leading retail giant announced Friday that it will implement a 9-to-5 working hour system starting from January. It is the first Korean conglomerate to reduce the working week to 35 hours. Currently, standard working weeks are 40 hours [...] Roughly 50,000 employees and executives at 12 of Shinsegae’s affiliates will be affected by the new system from the start of next year...(more you can read here)
Today's ('progressive')Hankyoreh mentioned that the company is the first in South Korea to cut working hours while maintaining wage levels [...] Shinsegae’s announcement is groundbreaking...(more detailed info you'll get here)
Tens of thousands of people marched through central Seoul on Saturday to stand up for equality for sexual minorities in South Korea’s biggest pride parade, despite vocal opposition from anti-gay protesters.
Despite heavy rain, which fell sporadically throughout the afternoon, organizers said about 85,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people, along with their supporters gathered at Seoul Plaza to demonstrate under the slogan of “There is not later, we change it now!”(source: Korea Herald)
Here're just some impressions, provided by "Workers' Solidarity"(more pics you'll get here and here)...
Related articles:
☞ 빗속 퀴어들의 외침 “나중은 없다”…퀴어축제 8만5천 명 모여 (참세상, 7.15)
☞ 'There is no later. We change it now' (K. Times, 7.16)
☞ Seoul Pride parade draws record crowd for equality (JoongAng Ilbo, 7.16)
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