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No comment, just a - sort of funny(??) - supplement...

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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. Toward the end of his life, Kim was caught up in a massive credit and debt crisis. The memorial has been set up in front of Deoksugung Palace’s Daehanmun Gate in 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)

To support the still exising memorial site(@Daehanmun) the activist group CulturalAction/문화연대 organized for today(7.22) a "Day of Solidarity"...

Here'll you'll get some impressions, photographed by Choi Hon-guk depicting today's "Day of Solidarity"...

And a short while ago comrade 이기철 published the following impressive video...

* Related article:
☞ Ongoing attacks against SsangYong memorial site in central Seoul.. (7.04)
 

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More than a hundred thousand LGBT activits and their supporters filled Seoul Plaza last Saturday(7.14) to celebrate the 19th Seoul Queer Culture Festival, a record turnout according to its organizers. Here're some impressions, published by NewsCham(7.14)...

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☞ Seoul LGBT festival sees record numbers (JoongAng Ilbo, 7.16)

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Source of the pics: Rodong Sinmun

PS(and that's not a comment!!). "I have met Chairman Kim Jong-un twice so far. Chairman Kim had a great desire to[...] develop North Korea into a normal country," Moon[Jae-in] said in a special lecture hosted by the Institute of South East Asian Studies in Singapore...(source: Yonhap, 7.13)

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관계 기사:
☞ “전교조 법외노조 끝내자” 조창익 위원장 단식 농성 돌입 (참세상, 7.16)
☞ 전교조 조창익 위원장, 무기한 단식투쟁 돌입 (노동과 세계, 7.16)

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A few days ago in S. Korea...

사진: 신유아, 7.14
 

Also few days ago, though in N. Korea...

출처: KCTV/Rodong Sinmun, 6.30

N0 COMMENT...(^^)

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Workers at Hyundai Motor continued their strike on Friday over failed wage negotiations, while the union at Hyundai Heavy Industries joined for the first time this year...

The strikes were impacted by a greater move from the umbrella Korean Metal Workers’ Union, of which Hyundai Motor and Hyundai Heavy Industries unions are both a part. The umbrella union held a rally in front of Hyundai Motor Group’s headquarters...

..in southern Seoul on Friday(*). An estimated 30,000 union members participated...

The rally included a bevy of other demands. They called for an end to the unfair trade terms between conglomerates and subsidiaries. They demanded a thorough investigation of former Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae, who is accused of influencing court decisions to curry favor with the previous administration. Some labor unions under the umbrella union had been affected by Yang’s rulings on cases involving companies like SsangYong Motor...

Prior to the Korean Metal Workers’ Union rally, about 30,000 members from the Korean Construction Workers’ Union gathered in central Seoul on Thursday(**)...

...to demand better labor laws for construction sites...(source: JoongAng Ilbo, 7.14)

* Related reports(incl. lots of pics) in Korean:
☞ 금속노동자, 자본의 심장을 뒤흔들다 (금속노동자, 7.14)
☞ 금속노조 12만 총파업…현대차 본사 진격 (잠세상, 7.13)
☞ “사법 적폐세력 구속, 피해노동자 원상회복” (금속노동자, 7.14)
** More info in English you'll get here.

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