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Since more than 3 month our comrades Yeo Min-hui and Oh Su-yeong...
 

 
...union members of the Jaeneung Educational Institute (JEI) chapter of the Korean Educational Materials Industry Union, are occupying a 20-meter bell tower at the Hyehwa-dong cathedral in Seoul...

Last Wednesday evening in Seoul's Hyehwa-dong: About one hundred activists "celebrated" the 100th day of BELL TOWER STRUGGLE(*) with a powerful solidarity rally. Here just some impressions (source of the pics: KCTU)...
 

* Several detailed English articles/reports about the struggle you'll find on LabourStart!

Related:
☞ 재능투쟁 종탑100일, 재능교육 결단촉구 투쟁 결의대회 (코뮌영상네트워크/YouTube, 5.15)
☞ Interview(in Korean) with Oh Su-yeong and Yeo Min-hui (NewsCham, 5.15)

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Yesterday afternoon thousands of workers rallied in S. Korea to demand a final, positive solution for the millions of so-called "irregular" workers. This "Nationwide Protest Day" was orgainzed by the Korean Metal Workers' Union(KMWU).

In Seoul about 3,500 workers gathered in front of Hyundai/KIA HQ, located in the southern Yangjae-dong(district), demanding "Abolish 'irregular' employments - regular jobs for ALL!!"...

 
...but finally they were attacked(27 workers arrested, at least 50 injured..) by thousands of riot cops!!

Some related (Korean)articles, incl. many pictures, you'll find here!!

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Here you'll get some more detailed info (in Korean) about the "H-20000 Project". And here you can read some recent (Korean) reports, related to the project!!
 

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종탑 고공농성으로 찾아가는 문예 5월14~17일
시간 : 매일 저녁 7시
장소 : 혜화동성당 맞은편 재능본사 앞

5.14.(火)
조혜영 시인의 시시한 이야기와 시시한노래
노동비보이, 시와, 윤영배, 새시대 예술연합 윤종식

5.15.(水)
[종탑투쟁100일]재능교육 결단촉구 투쟁결의대회
노래하는 오혜란, 김성만, 몸짓패 들꽃, 황규관 시인
(More detailed info you'll get tomorrow!!)

5.16.(木)
마이라이프 나의 인생아! GM비정규직노동자 신현창
뉴에이지 밴드 이든

5.17.(金)
자가회의, 리얼리스트100과 함께 하는 문학이 있는 밤
손병결 시인, 노경실 동화작가, 김홍춘 시인.
노래하는 정수창

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Today's press review
  

1. JoongAng Ilbo

While the S. Korean bourgeois conservative(reactionary) newspaper in its today's editorial laments about the "The tyranny of militant unions" in another article the paper asks (the silly question) "Would Ssangyong sit-in be legal at White House?"... Good question!^^
 

2. Today's Yonhap, S. Korea's semi-official news agency...
 

3. A kind of funny piece by KCNA/Rodong Shinmun(N. Korea)...
 

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The Namyang Diary "scandal": Well... it's just another (bizarre) example depicting the ugly reality of capitalism "Made in Korea". But it's just the tip of the iceberg...
 

Related articles:
☞ Namyang Dairy Products Forces Products onto Distributors... (Kyunghyang Shinmun, 5.06)
☞ Foul language and brutual sales tactics lead to anti-Namyang campaign (TMH, 5.06)
☞ Convenience store owners boycott scandal-ridden dairy producer (Yonhap, 5.08)
☞ Namyang Dairy in crisis (Korea Herald, 5.08)
☞ Victims of corporate abuse air their grievances (Hankyoreh, 5.08)