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Last Monday(5.29) in central Seoul: Members of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union(KTU) chant slogans during a press conference...

...outside the Central Gov't Complex, calling on the government to withdraw the previous administration’s decision to revoke the union’s legal status (source: Hankyoreh, 5.30)

On the same day KTU started an indefinite sit-in struggle to pressure the current (Moon Jae-in)gov't with the aim "Legalize KTU now!"

Related article:
☞ 전교조, 법외노조 철회 위한 철야농성 돌입 (자주시보, 5.29)

KTU's recent (sit-in)struggle reports you'll get here and here.

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Once a "backwater town in the boondocks" - now the center of resistance(against the THAAD deployment). Impressions from Soseong-ri(Seongju-gun, Gyeongbuk-do), photographed y'day by comrade Park Joon...

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Today's Korea Herald reported that South Korea’s Supreme Court confirmed a three-year jail sentence for Han Sang-gyun, the leader of the nation’s second-biggest umbrella labor union, for "leading violent rallies". Labor groups denounced the ruling as a regression of democracy. Han, head of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, was convicted on charges of leading a series of illegal rallies at the end of 2015 and causing damage to public property and police officers...(more you can read here, today's Yonhap News report you'll get here)

Here you can read KCTU's official statement, related to the verdict.

Related articles:
☞ 한상균 징역 3년 확정…“책임 사라진 차벽과 물대포 진압” (참세상, 5.31)
☞ 대법원, ‘민중총궐기 주도’ 한상균 징역 3년 확정 (민중의소리, 5.31)
☞ 상고 기각 한상균 위원장 징역 3년 확정... (노동과 세계, 5.31)

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Today's Global Times(環球時報, 中國) reported the following: South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday ordered a thorough investigation into the unauthorized delivery of four more mobile launchers of the US missile shield to the country. Yoon Young-chan, chief presidential press secretary, told a press briefing that President Moon said it was "very shocking" after he was briefed on the unauthorized transportation. Top presidential security advisor Chung Eui-yong reported to Moon that four more THAAD mobile launchers were secretly transported to South Korea in addition to two launchers already installed. Moon ordered the security advisor and the senior presidential secretary for civil affairs to thoroughly look into the secret delivery...(more you can read here)

Related articles:
☞ THAAD launchers brought in without Moon's knowledge (K.Times, 5.30)
☞ 사드 추가 반입 은폐한 국방부, 문재인 대통령 ‘진상조사’ 지시 (민중의소리, 5.30)

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Sharan Burrow (R), general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, poses for a photo with Choi Jong-jin, acting chief of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions...
 

...during their meeting at the confederation's headquarters in Seoul on May 29, 2017. (Yonhap)

Related report in Korean:
☞ 국제노총 사무총장 “전교조 법외노조 철회, 기대한다” (교육희망, 5.29)

Members from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the smaller of the two major labor umbrella groups in South Korea, undertake the Buddhist practice of three steps, one bow...

...as they rally in Seoul on May 29, 2017, to call for upgrading their status from irregular positions to regular ones and increasing the minimum wage to 10,000 won (US$8.68) per hour. (Yonhap)

Related reports in Korean:
☞ 민주노총 농성 돌입…“정권 교체됐지만, 노동자 삶은” (참세상, 5.29)
☞ 민주노총〈노동존중세상으로 한걸음 더〉농성돌입 (진보노동뉴스, 5.29)

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Y'day(5.27) afternoon in central Seoul...

About 5000 activists, representing some 600 organizations(most of them KCTU-affiliated), staged a struggle rally/demo to pressure the new elected (Moon Jae-in)gov't to comply with workers' most urgently demands: "Statutory minimum wage 10,000 won/per hour... as soon as possible(2018)!" and "Abolish precarious employment circumstances... once for all!"

KCTU's detailed report(in Korean), incl. lots of pics, you'll get here

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