Videos(recorded by comrade Lee Ki-cheol), following almost the entire route of the protest, you can watch here:
1. The beginning @Jogye-sa(temple)...
2. Jonggak Stn/Samsung Tower --> Kyobo B/D
3. Kyobo --> City Hall Plaza
4. City Hall --> Daehanmun
Related reports in Korean you'll get here(by Progressive Labor News) and here(by Daily Labor News).
About one year ago the International Labour Organization (ILO) has recommended that the South Korean government amend the Education Workers Union Act, which provide the grounds for not giving legal recognition to the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union (KTU)...
Y'day(8.02) a high school student posted a message on a presidential bulletin board, i.e. addressed a petition to Moon Jae-in, and demanded KTU's recognition as a LEGAL union...
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☞ “전교조 선생님과 법외노조 취소 기쁨 나누고 싶다” (교육희망, 8.03)
Yesterday's Korea Times reported that the "North Korean propaganda website 'DPRK Today' recently posted a video on the benefits of vinegar drinks made from a wide range of fruits. The video promotes drinking vinegar, saying it helps eliminate waste from the body and helps prevent obesity..." Yep! A short while ago the "Beloved and Respected Supreme Leader"(경애하는 최고령도자) Kim Jong-un...
...introduced a new, "revolutionary" policy, regarding HIS subjects' "wellbeing". And its first priotity is... "Prevent OBESITY!!"
No comment...(^^)
쌍용차노조 김득중지부장은 <8월2일에 서울종로구 조계사부터 대한문까지 종교계와 함께 오체투지투쟁에 나선다.>고 30일 밝혔다. 그러면서 <조계종사회노동위원회에서 투쟁계획을 보내왔는데 우리쪽에서도 나를 포함한 몇몇이 동참하기로 했다.>며 <그늘에 있어도 힘든 날씨지만 절실함과 절박함을 가지고 끝까지 해낼 생각>이라고 강조했다... (출처: 진보노동뉴스, 7.30)
[7.30/31]법외노조 취소! 노동3권 쟁취! 위원장단식(*) 15/16일차, 전교조 농성 43/44일차...
* 관계 기사:
☞ “문재인, 교사들에겐 상당한 위기” (참세상, 7.27)
Members of KMWU-SsangYong Motor Branch and activists of the Korean Teachers' Union joined today's first leg of this year's...
Here're just some impressions, photographed by comrade Kim Deuk-jung:
Welcome to Absurdistan(*)
[Sept. 8~13, 1969] REPORT
about the trip of a delegation of the Primorsky Kray(**) to the province of North Hamgyong for the celebration of the 21st anniversary of the proclamation of the DPRK
A delegation of the Primorsky Kray composed [of the following members] was sent to the province of North Hamgyong at the invitation of the provincial People’s Committee for the celebration of the 21st anniversary of the proclamation of the DPRK:
1. SHTODIN, I. I., First Deputy Chairman of the Kray Executive Committee;
2. MUROMTSEV, S. P., First Secretary of the Frunze Rayon CPSU Committee;
3. NECHUKHAYEV, A. V., a welder of Plant Nº 178.
The delegation crossed the Soviet border via the Druzhba Bridge in the region of Khasan Station at 1140 local time, 8 September 1969, an hour and 40 minutes later than the agreed time...(***)
[On Sept.11] the delegation went to the Tumangang Station and were at the Khasan Station at 1530 our time; in the process it was supplied with an abundance of brochures of Kim Il Sung and about himself...
In the opinion of the delegation there are the following positive features in the lives of the Korean workers:
1. Patriotism, the labor effort, and high discipline was felt everywhere.
2. Work to raise young people was organized well and they have a great desire to study.
3. Many schools and clubs are being built. Visual propaganda is well designed.
The following ought to be classed among the negative phenomena:
1. The delegation was received insincerely and was kept in isolation from the population all the time. Personal articles were examined in the delegation’s absence, and discussions were obviously overheard. Wherever the delegation was, it was constantly accompanied by guards, who blocked everything. When the delegation once went out the doors of the residence to about 250 meters a vehicle drove up and the driver suggested sitting in it, after which he delivered the delegation to the residence.
2. The cult of Kim Il Sung has reached incredible dimensions.
3. Manual labor is everywhere. There is very little transportation. There are draft animals in agriculture, bulls and cows. The roads are very bad.
4. The underscored negation of the role of the Soviet Army in the liberation of Korea and the aid of the Soviet government in building socialism. What could explain this when hieroglyphs (SIC) were welded on the hoods of our ZIL-150 and ZIL-130 instead of the inscription ZIL. On the Belarus’ and T-28 tractors they say that they were made in Korea. (Translator’s note: there is a largely illegible handwritten note in the left margin, “This is…tractor”)
5. The unjustified conceit which of course brings nothing but harm. 6. The poverty, exceptionally poor housing in the villages, and almost nothing new is being built. The unsanitary conditions...
Well, this report depicts the experience of a Soviet, communist party and workers' delegation to N. Korea, almost 50 years ago... Today, a half century later, we are able to compare the USSR delegation's trip to N.K. with the experiences of vistors(since 3 decades mainly tourists + a very few journalists from capitalist countries). Thanx (for example) to YouTube we can watch (more or less!!)objective videos/docus such as N. KOREA | YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT IT'S LIKE... And finally we're able to find out, that - except the "refurbished furnishing" - almost is the same!!
* Absurdistan is a term sometimes used to satirically describe a country in which absurdity is the norm...(source: wikipedia)
** At that time a part of the Soviet Union(more info you'll get here)
*** The full text of the report you can read here.
The SsangYong Motor chapter of the Korea Metal Workers’ Union(KMWU) has set up a memorial site for Kim Ju-jung since July 3. Kim took his own life on June 27 after a fierce struggle to be reinstated at Ssangyong Motor following an unjust mass layoff in 2009. The memorial has been set up in front of Daehanmun, the main gate of Deoksu-gung(palace) in central Seoul. Labor rights activists and civic demonstrators have commented that government inaction has indirectly contributed to the deaths of 30 workers since the mass layoff...(source: Hankyoreh, 7.14)
Since today(7.25) in the early morning(KST) a Buddhist ritual took place in front of the memorial site to pray for the reinstatement of the remaining 119 SsangYong workers, dismissed ten years ago. The ancient, traditional ceremony, led by a monk of the Jogye Order included 119(!!) bows and sermons...
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