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[10.24] Activists have their he​ads shaved(by KCTU members!!)...

...to protest the police's move to conduct an autopsy on the deceased farmer Baek Nam-ki, at the Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul. Baek collapsed after being hit by a police water cannon last year and died recently after being in a coma for 10 months. The warrant to conduct the autopsy expires tomorrow...(related report: "Ordinary Koreans stage sit-in to protect deceased farmer’s body", K. Herald, 10.24)

Today's activities of resistance in central Seoul:

Solidarity march(performing orthodox Buddhist-style prostration) to guard Baek Nam-ki...(KCTU's report you'll get here)

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S. Korean Police attempted today in the morning(KST) to forcibly execute a warrant for the autopsy on Baek Nam-ki, the farmer who died last month following a 10-month coma after being knocked over by a police water cannon, but withdrew due to strong resistance from the bereaved family and civic group members...(more you can read here)

The conflict over the autopsy is expected to escalate until Tuesday when the warrant expires...(Korea Times, 10.23). But today's K. Herald reported the following: “We will not forcefully execute the warrant, should the bereaved family oppose (the autopsy),” Hong Wan-seon, commissioner of Seoul’s Jongno Police Station, said in a briefing at Seoul National University Hospital...

Anyway, here's tomorrow's struggle schedule:

[PS] Y'day afternoon in central Seoul: Hundreds of supporters, incl. civic activists and KCTU members, gathered near Gwanghwamun Square, demanding that government apologize for Baek Nam-ki's death and vowed to protect him(resp. his body) against any attempts by the prosecution/cops to carry out a forcibly executed autopsy...(here you'll get a detailed report in Korean)

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Yesterday's Yonhap News Agency has been (possibly)somewhat confused! In the afternoon(16:20KST) it published the following "photo report"...

...a short while later(17:48KST) the int'l 'audience' got that:

But in reality... The strike by the Korean Railway Workers' Union/KRWU(here you'll get KRWU's complete strike diary) is still going on!!

Y'day afternoon in central Seoul: Thousands of KRWU members joined KCTU's rally to protest the planned "labour reform" and demanded the END of the PGH(박근혜) REGIME...

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Yesterday's Korea Times(KT) wrote the following: Opposition party lawmakers have lamented the presidential office's alleged blacklist of 9,400 artists by comparing them to American Nobel laureate Bob Dylan. "I congratulate Dylan, who sang about anti-war, peace and human right," Seoul mayor Park Won-soon said on Facebook on Friday, after the musician was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first songwriter to win the award. "While Cheong Wa Dae was making the blacklist of pop culture artists, he was writing poetry for the ears that has changed the world," Park said. "Now, I want to hear what only Cheong Wa Dae can answer."...(here you'll get the full piece)

Related (background)articles:
☞ Presidential office blacklisted 9,473 artists for political reasons (KT, 10.12)
☞ Liberals decry arts censorship (K. Herald, 10.13)

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