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"WE ARE NOT SLAVES!"

Migrant workers in S. Korea are still fighting for human and labor rights! Impressions, photographed(9.23 in Seoul) by comrade Soe Moe Thu:

Related contribution:
☞ [9.23] 'Migrant Workers Day of Struggle'


 

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Recently - once again - a former Ssangyong Motors worker passed away! He is the 23rd dismissed worker to die since the workers were forced out of work in 2009(*). Today's impressions from the SsangYong Memorial Site nearby Daehanmun, the main entrance of Deoksu-gung(palace) in the center of Seoul:
 

* Related piece:
☞ 23rd victim of Ssangyong (Hankyoreh, 10.9)

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Chuseok 2012 in Seoul: A visit at the site of the Jaenueng Sit-in Struggle Collective, today since 1,749 days in street-strike(background info you'll find here)...

 Photographed by Wooki Lee

Related "report":

☞ Chuseok in Solidarity with Jaeneung Struggle Collective (MDLF, 2011.9.13)



 

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Impressions from this year's Chuseok (the Korean "Thanksgiving") at the SsangYong Memorial Site nearby Daehanmun, the main entrance of Deoksugung(palace) in the center of Seoul, photographed by Wooki Lee:

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Last night's beautiful (Chuseok)full moon over Gangjeong/Jeju Island...

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Today's (beautiful) impressions from Gangjeong after 'Sanba', the 16th (devastating!!) typhoon(*) hit Jeju Island (photographed by Jo Seong-bong):

* Related reports:
☞ One dead as Typhoon Sanba slams southern S. Korea (Yonhap, 9.17)
☞ Typhoon Sanba pounds southern regions (K. Herald, 9.17)


 

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Well, it seems that the entire S. Korean society is infected with the "Gangnam Style Pyrexia", incl. KCTU!! But the labor and resistance movements already created several alternative versions, called "Struggle/Workers' Style"(here you can listen to one example): 

 Source of the pics: Rchert Yoon

 Related articles:
☞ 투쟁사업장 공동투쟁단, “우린 노동스타일” (NewsCham, 9.05)
☞ 민주노총 총파업, 충북노동자 일 손 멈추고 거리로 (MediaCC, 8.30)

 

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Last Friday's(8.31) KCTU "General Strike" in S. Korea. Impressions from the demonstrations/rallies - 15,000 workers participated - in downtown Seoul:
 

 Source of the pics: Rchert Yoon/사진가 연대체 선(線)

Related articles:
☞ 민주노총 세상을 바꾸는 8월 총파업승리 결의 (KCTU, 8.31)
☞ 민주노총 총파업, 1만 5천명 도심행진 진행 (NewsCham, 8.31)

PS: Possibly almost everyone knows now "Gangnam Style" (if you don't know, just check out Youtube^^)... But here you can listen to the newest S. Korean alternative version, called "Struggle Style"!!

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Yesterday's "General Strike" in S. Korea. Impressions from Seoul (protest rally in front of 'Jaenueng Educational Institute'/JEI in Hyehwa-dong): 

 Source of the pics: Rchert Yoon/사진가연대체'선(線)'

 

Related article:
☞ 민주노총 비정규직 투쟁본부 출범 (NewsCham, 8.29)

 

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Today's "General Strike" in S. Korea. Impressions from Busan (above), Ansan (in front of SJM factory), Daegu, Ulsan and Incheon:
 

Related article:
☞ Umbrella union calls for nationwide strike (K. Herald/Yonhap, 8.28)