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About three month ago(7.15), a petition called “Rescind the decision to deploy [the] THAAD antimissile system in South Korea” was added to the 'We the People' petition platform, which is part of the White House website...

Four days ago(10.9) the petitioner got an answer from the 'We the People Team', resp. the White House: "F*CK YOU!!"(here you'll get the full text)...

Related articles:
☞ White House petition calls for THAAD deployment to be called off (Hankyoreh, 7.19)
☞ No. of petitioners to White House against THAAD deployment tops 100,000 (Yonhap, 8.11)
☞ White House rejects petition calling for halt to THAAD deployment in S. Korea (RT, 10.11)

Meanwhile, thwo days later(10.11) in central Seoul: About 3000 citizens from Gimcheon/Seongju and members of the Won Buddhist order staged a rally to protest the planned THAAD deployment in S. Korea...

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More detailed info you'll get here

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A number of truck drivers have walked out of work starting on Monday to protest the government’s reform plans for the truck transportation market, which were introduced in August. Members of an independent truckers’ union under the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union (KPTU), launched the walkout campaign, following labor movements from Korail, the country’s railroad operator. The decrease of truck transportation is expected to aggravate the logistics disturbance that is already ongoing after the Hanjin Shipping crisis and the strike of the Korean Railway Workers’ Union that started on Sept. 27... Over 7,000 out of 21,757 independent container truck drivers have joined the truckers’ union under KPTU, which means one out of three container trucks will be out of work during the strike... (source: JoongAng Ilbo, 10.10)

The truckers on strike are members of a labor union under the umbrella Korea Confederation of Trade Unions. Mostly container truckers, they are protesting against the government’s plan to allow more small freight trucks to operate, as they fear that it would lead to a cut in freight rates. Transport Minister Kang Ho-in called their collective action “unjustifiable,” urging the truckers to return to work. “The government will sternly deal with this strike in accordance with the law and its principle,” he said in a public statement. Over 3,900 union members held rallies in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, and the port city of Busan. Some 5,000 police officers were dispatched in anticipation of possible violence and illegal occupation of the sea terminals... (source: Korea Herald, 10.10)

Here just some impressions(source of the pics: Voice of the People) depicting today's strike rally(pressed/threatened by thousands of riot cops) in Busan...

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Two days ago(10.1): About 7,000 labour activists(from the southern parts of S. Korea) joined KCTU's "Nat'l Workers Rally" in Daegu. The purpose to hold the rally/demo was to protest the gov't planned labour"reform", to show solidarity with Baek Nam-ki's case(the gov't must take responsibility for the death!) and to remember the 70th anniversary of the Daegu Resistance Movement. Here're just some impressions, depicting the 'event'...