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[6.24] HYDIS workers' sit-in struggle in central Seoul[in front of Hanhwa B/D(here's also the Taiwanese consulate located!!), nearby Gwanghwamun. Today's picture story(*), whithout any comments...

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Despite last week's deportation order... THE STRUGGLE GOES ON!

In Seoul...

and in Taipei...

And as I said in the beginning... THE STRUGGLE GEOS ON!!

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Int'l solidarity...

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Today's Taiwanese (bourgeois)Total Taipei reported the following: "Eight South Korean nationals who are reportedly former Hydis employees were arrested last night for disturbing social order during a protest that included about 50 people outside Yuen Foong Yu Group, the parent company of E Ink, in Taipei, according to CNA. The Immigration Agency says that it will handle their case according to the law, which means that the eight will most likely be deported..."(the full article you can read here).
 

The capture of the S. Korean activists resulted in an massive midnight protest rally in front of the Taipei Central Police Office...

But despite the fierce protests/resistance by the Taiwanese activists... Today in the early afternoon(KST) their S. Korean comrades were (forcibly)deported...

To be continued...

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Since almost two weeks S. Korean dismissed HYDIS workers are staging their 3rd "Taipei Protest Tour"(more detailed info you'll get here)... Three days ago, after the attack by the Taiwanese police...

...two S. Korean activists started an unlimited hunger strike(here you'll get their statement, published by KMWU) in Taipei...

"Our gov't keep sending out police threaten to evict Korean workers (abandoned by Taiwan YFY Group) from the camp site (May 25th~now@台北市仁愛路二段94號). Several activists arrested or deported for civil disobedience, Korean workers in hunger strike since Jun 4th, they are not titanium, they need support of Taipei activists!", a Taiwanese activist wrote y'day..

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Y'day in Taiwan's capital city Taipei: Activists from the S. Korean HYDIS labour union, continuing since more than a week the 3rd "Taipei Protest", and their Chinese supporters were confronted with the Taiwanese state "authority", i.e. they were attacked by the cops(here you'll get a report in Chinese, incl. lots of pics)...

Today's (bourgeois)Taipei Times reported the following: Two workers from South Korea’s Hydis Technologies were arrested yesterday after a demonstration outside the Presidential Office Building in Taipei(here you can watch a video report published by KMWU) to protest against their Taiwanese employers...

For the past 10 days, nearly a dozen South Korean union representatives have camped outside the personal residence of Yuen Foong Yu (YFY) Group chairperson Ho Shou-chuan. On the front steps of Ho’s residence, the workers set up a memorial shrine...

...to former Hydis union leader Bae Jae-hyoung, who committed suicide last month after reportedly receiving legal threats from Hydis management...

Dressed in a black robe, Bae’s widow, Lee Mi-ra... 

...carried a portrait of her husband as she marched toward the Presidential Office Building during yesterday’s demonstration. She was accompanied by dozens of Taiwanese labor activists and students, who came to express their support...(the full article you can read here)

But despite the police violence the Korean activists and their supporters vowed to continue their protests outside Ho’s residence until talks with YFY Group take place. “We will not leave Taiwan until we have a meeting with Yuen Foong Yu,” Korean Confederation of Trade Unions regional branch leader Lee Sang-aun said..."

Related articles in Korean you'll get here and here. Updated reports in Chinese you'll get on LabourStart.

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HYDIS workers' 3rd "Taiwan Struggle Tour"

Yesterday in Taiwan's capital city Taipei: Activists from the S. Korean Hydis labour union staged their "3rd Taipei Protest"...

...(here and here you'll get reports, related to the "2nd Taipei Protest") over factory layoffs...

One of the S. Korean activists reported y'day the following:

Immolated former Hydis union leader's bereaved family, union colleagues and Tawianese supporters set up a memorial shrine to remember BAE Jae Hyoung in front of YFY Chairman HO Shou Chuan's house today...

Taiwanese workers and human rights groups joined with South Korean Hydis workers and bereaved family of labor martyr BAE Jae Hyoung to call for the company to engage in dialogue. 

However, the company continues to refuse the bereaved and workers' calls to engage in dialogue toward rescinding the plant closure, mass dismissals and for measures for the dead Hydis former union leader's family.

The press conference participants marched to YFY Chairman HO, Shou Chuan's house calling for the company to step up and engage in dialogue...

To heed dead union leader BAE Jae Hyoung's last wishes "continue your solidarity so the Hydis struggle can end in victory," the group set up a memorial shrine with Bae's photo in front of Mr Ho's house, awaiting a sincere apology and change of heart toward willingness to engage in dialogue in front of the dead BAE Jae Hyoung...

Today's (bourgeois)Taipei Times wrote: Union representatives from South Korea’s Hydis Technologies Co Ltd yesterday gathered outside the Yuen Foong Yu Group (YFY) building on their latest visit to Taipei to protest the dismissal of more than 300 workers from a factory in Icheon...(the complete article you can read here)

Related reports in Korean you'll get here, here and here. Related Chinese reports you'll get here and here.

A lot of more pics​, depicting yesterday's activities in Taipei you'll get here. And finally here, here and here you can watch videos, depicting yesterday's protest events in Taipei, staged by Hydis labour union activists.

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Last week(from Monday until Friday evening) South Korean workers from Hydis Technologies, a subsidiary of a Taiwanese company, staged protests in Taipei to press their demands that the factory should not be closed...(reports by the Taiwanese bourgeois media in English you'll get here, here and here)

During their protest rallies in Taipei the S. Korean workers and their Taiwanese supporters distributed the following info-leaflet...

And finally here're just some more impressions, depicting the first days of the protest avtivities in Taipei(a collection of Chinese independent reports, incl. pics and videos you'll get here)...

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Last week(from Monday until Friday evening) South Korean workers from Hydis Technologies, a subsidiary of a Taiwanese company in South Korea, staged protests in Taipei to press their demands that the factory should not be closed.

30 of the workers, together with local support groups including the Taoyuan Confederation of Labor Unions, took the streets... 

...of Taiwan's capital city in an attempt  to appeal to E Ink Holdings (EIH) — the parent company of Hydis Technologies — to revoke its decision to shut down the factory and stop laying off its South Korean workers.

The representative of KMWU said E Ink had previously pledged that it would not sell the company's patents and would continue to run the factory. But it announced earlier this year that it will shut down the factory by the end of March, resulting in more than 700 job losses. The employees attempted to communicate with the company but their efforts were rejected...

Last Saturday Taipei Times reported the following: A group of South Korean workers yesterday protested inside a branch of Bank SinoPac in Taipei to highlight the decision by E Ink Holdings Inc — a subsidiary of the Yuen Foong Yu Group that owns the bank — to close a Hydis plant in South Korea on (next)Tuesday. 

The protesting workers held a press conference...

...outside the bank, telling reporters that Yuen Foong Yu Group’s decision to close the plant when the company remained profitable was illogical.

Without giving advance notice, the protesters then entered the bank holding signs reading: “Chairman Ho, don’t run away,” and “Chairman Ho, don’t close the plant” — referring to Yuen Foong Yu chairman Ho Shou-chuan  — and held a peaceful protest that included chanting slogans and dancing...

Before ending the protest, the workers sang the "Workers’ Fight Song" (勞動者戰歌) in Mandarin, and performed a traditional Korean ritual of respect by kneeling down and placing their foreheads on the ground to thank Taiwanese activists who had come to support them(the full report you can read here/related short videos you can watch here and here/a report in Chinese, incl. pics and a video you'll get here)...