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There're several local "progressive"media in S. Korea, published also in English... But solely today's (bourgeois)Korea Herald reported about yesterday's "National Migrant Workers Rally": Migrant workers in South Korea staged a rally calling for the abolishment of the Employment Permit System...

...Some five hundred laborers from organizations such as the Alliance for Migrants’ Equality and Human Rights and Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, gathered around Bosingak Bell in downtown Seoul for the rally...


A slide show(published by Kyunghyang Shinmun), depicting the event you'll get here...

Finally - here - you'll get KCTU's related report, incl. lots of pics.

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Y'day afternoon: The "4th Nationwide Peace Action" took place in Soseong-ri(Seongju-gun, Gyeongbuk-do) and activsts from all across S. Korea joined the event to protest the ongoing THAAD deployment there...

Amid 800 people gathering in the small village of Soseong-ri, the statement reads, "The [Moon Jae-in] government is pushing a deceptive measuring of electro magnetic waves and discussion while appeasing and separating residents." "The government also tries to nail THAAD by announcing to deploy four more THAAD launchers." "All these are betrayal to the candles held by people who aspire to liquidate all deep-rooted evils ." "The government is violating procedural justice itself." They added, "We strongly demand the government to open the way for the withdrawal of THAAD through re-examination on the matter of THAAD from the beginning. If the government pushes to deploy four more launchers, we will fight to the end."(source: NO THAAD in South Korea!)

More detailed reports in Korean, incl. lots of pics, you'll get here and here. And - finally - here you can watch a video report, depicting almost the entire protest rally/demo...

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Despite heavy rain, people gathered in areas throughout Seoul to make their voices heard on various diplomatic, military and political issues, Tuesday, marking the 72nd anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 occupation. Amid heightened tension among neighboring states and allies, around 10,000 activists gathered at Seoul Plaza to demand the withdrawal of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery, as well as the halting of Korea-U.S. military drills...(source: Korea Times, 8.15)

Thousands of protesters packed the streets near Seoul City Hall in a rally that started at 3:30 p.m., calling on the Moon administration to scrap the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. “The deployment of THAAD should be pulled back as it is of no use to defend South Korea,” one of the rally organizers said on a podium at the square... “The US has recently increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula, voicing out threats of military action (against North Korea), but no one has the right to take military action here, and the threats must stop now,” the organizer told the crowd...(source, K. Herald, 8.15)

Related article &(video)reports:
☞ 8.15범국민대회...“한미동맹 아닌 우리가 촛불” (참세상, 8.15)
☞ 8.15 전국노동자대회 (factTV)
☞ 8.15 범국민행동 (factTV)

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Related articles:
☞ THAAD environmental impact assessment postponed... (Hankyoreh, 8.11)
☞ THAAD radar won't cause environmental damage (Yonhap, 8.12)
☞ Gov't likely to accelerate THAAD launcher deployment (K. Times, 8.13)
☞ THAAD protesters refuse to accept gov't survey... (Yonhap, 8.13)
☞ Residents suspicious of Thaad study findings (JoongAng Ilbo, 8.14)

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