Jan 31. Korean residents in the United States and its citizens staged a demonstration outside the south Korean consulate general in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, demanding the abrogation of south Korea′s "National Security Law" (NSL).
They were members of Koreans′ organizations supporting the Joint Measure Committee for the Frustration of the Suppression of the Socialist Workers′ Federation and the Repeal of NSL which Violates the Freedom of Political Activities and Thinking in south Korea and American progressive organizations.
The demonstrators pointed out that the south Korean authorities seek to bring to the final trial seven members of the Socialist Workers′ Federation including O Se Chol, chairman of the steering committee of the Federation and honorary professor of Yonsei University.
The authorities are trying to punish those members of the Federation by invoking the NSL, a fascist law, they charged.
They urged the south Korean authorities to stop at once the suppression of the Federation, putting up the slogan "Abrogate NSL!" -
Monday 31 January 2011
Thursday 27 January 2011
S. Korea and social evils
South Korea Ailing with Social Evils
Increasing the poor bracket
In south Korean society misruled by the anti-people policy of the conservative regime, the number of the poor is increasing day after day.
Even according to an official announcement of the puppet regime the number of the poor households was 3,058,000, which holds nearly 20% of all the households and includes 7 million people.
According to a material 63% of the poor households are completely unemployed, and 14% of them are living on a shoestring as day-laborers and the rest are eking out a bare existence though they have certain jobs.
The conservative group has enforced the policy in favor of conglomerates and the rich only in disregard of the livelihood of the majority of the working people, so that the living standards gap between the rich and the poor extremely widened.
A large number of the medium-sized businesses and small merchants went into bankruptcy en masse so 134,725 households became the poor in 2009 alone.
In 2010, too, 30,000 ~ 70,000 independent businessmen went bankrupt every month. Therefore a growing number of the people face harsher living conditions, increasing the poor racket.
Poor public health
Since the conservative regime has been pursuing the “commercialization of the public health sector” after taking power, 82% hospitals flocked to big cities with high profit, further deteriorating the health condition in local areas. In particular, 43 counties are not equipped with emergency sections in hospitals, so that the inhabitants fail to receive any simple first-aid treatment.
Besides, 58% of all hospitals are treating the foreigners in the main for the sake of more fees, so that a few ones are available for the ordinaries.
In 2010, the outpatient fees increased by 7.2%, inpatient fees by 8.5%, tooth treatment fees by 10.6% compared with that in 2008, and the charges for appendix removal surgery skyrocketed to US$ 3,000, for abdominal cavity surgery to US$ 6,000 and for marrow transplantation surgery to US$ 170,000.
For the exorbitant prices of cold remedy and other common medicines 12 ~ 20% of all households are unable to go to hospital.
Miserable state of young people
The growing number of the young unemployed becomes a severe social problem.
The young unemployed number 764,000 in 2008, 905,000 in 2009 and 1,160,000 in the first half of 2010 making the unemployment rate of the young people a double that of the average.
6 of 10 university graduates, in particular, postpone their graduation to be undergraduate or withdraw from learning for the absence of jobs. Therefore, colleges and universities are called a nursery of the unemployed.
At present the portion of the young people working in big businesses and public sectors is very low at 20% and 10% respectively, and 50% of the 20s and 38% of the 30s are casual workers whose salary is no more than 54.7% of the full employed.
Young people and students who work in assorted chores for living expenses are 48% and 38.2%, the students absent from universities for failing to secure tuition fees are 26.9% and the students who owe debt for tuition fees are no less than 50.9%.
Among the suicides during the last 3 years the number increased by 35% in the 20s and 20.3% in the 30s every year.
Rampant crimes
Drug crimes are drastically increasing in south Korea.
15,000 drug users were recorded in 2000 but they reached to nearly one million in 2009, and addicts are numbered some 20,000.
Young drug users in their teens and 20s, in particular, account for 17%.
As the hospitals prescribe the medicines to patients with narcotic as the main agent, there appeared an atmosphere of openly agitating the use of drug in the public health sector, and the drug smuggling via internet increased 10 times more than that of 2008.
And the increasing sex offenses engaged in society.
Sex offenses are growing in number every year, so in 2008 49 cases were reported on a daily average but in 2009 they were increased to 56.
In 2009, in particular, it is reported that the young sex criminals aged less than 18 years old increased by 25% more than the previous year.
Increasing the poor bracket
In south Korean society misruled by the anti-people policy of the conservative regime, the number of the poor is increasing day after day.
Even according to an official announcement of the puppet regime the number of the poor households was 3,058,000, which holds nearly 20% of all the households and includes 7 million people.
According to a material 63% of the poor households are completely unemployed, and 14% of them are living on a shoestring as day-laborers and the rest are eking out a bare existence though they have certain jobs.
The conservative group has enforced the policy in favor of conglomerates and the rich only in disregard of the livelihood of the majority of the working people, so that the living standards gap between the rich and the poor extremely widened.
A large number of the medium-sized businesses and small merchants went into bankruptcy en masse so 134,725 households became the poor in 2009 alone.
In 2010, too, 30,000 ~ 70,000 independent businessmen went bankrupt every month. Therefore a growing number of the people face harsher living conditions, increasing the poor racket.
Poor public health
Since the conservative regime has been pursuing the “commercialization of the public health sector” after taking power, 82% hospitals flocked to big cities with high profit, further deteriorating the health condition in local areas. In particular, 43 counties are not equipped with emergency sections in hospitals, so that the inhabitants fail to receive any simple first-aid treatment.
Besides, 58% of all hospitals are treating the foreigners in the main for the sake of more fees, so that a few ones are available for the ordinaries.
In 2010, the outpatient fees increased by 7.2%, inpatient fees by 8.5%, tooth treatment fees by 10.6% compared with that in 2008, and the charges for appendix removal surgery skyrocketed to US$ 3,000, for abdominal cavity surgery to US$ 6,000 and for marrow transplantation surgery to US$ 170,000.
For the exorbitant prices of cold remedy and other common medicines 12 ~ 20% of all households are unable to go to hospital.
Miserable state of young people
The growing number of the young unemployed becomes a severe social problem.
The young unemployed number 764,000 in 2008, 905,000 in 2009 and 1,160,000 in the first half of 2010 making the unemployment rate of the young people a double that of the average.
6 of 10 university graduates, in particular, postpone their graduation to be undergraduate or withdraw from learning for the absence of jobs. Therefore, colleges and universities are called a nursery of the unemployed.
At present the portion of the young people working in big businesses and public sectors is very low at 20% and 10% respectively, and 50% of the 20s and 38% of the 30s are casual workers whose salary is no more than 54.7% of the full employed.
Young people and students who work in assorted chores for living expenses are 48% and 38.2%, the students absent from universities for failing to secure tuition fees are 26.9% and the students who owe debt for tuition fees are no less than 50.9%.
Among the suicides during the last 3 years the number increased by 35% in the 20s and 20.3% in the 30s every year.
Rampant crimes
Drug crimes are drastically increasing in south Korea.
15,000 drug users were recorded in 2000 but they reached to nearly one million in 2009, and addicts are numbered some 20,000.
Young drug users in their teens and 20s, in particular, account for 17%.
As the hospitals prescribe the medicines to patients with narcotic as the main agent, there appeared an atmosphere of openly agitating the use of drug in the public health sector, and the drug smuggling via internet increased 10 times more than that of 2008.
And the increasing sex offenses engaged in society.
Sex offenses are growing in number every year, so in 2008 49 cases were reported on a daily average but in 2009 they were increased to 56.
In 2009, in particular, it is reported that the young sex criminals aged less than 18 years old increased by 25% more than the previous year.
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Rev. Han Sang Ryol Sentenced to Prison Term in S. Korea
The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Rev. Han Sang Ryol to five years in prison and five-year suspension of qualifications on Jan. 21, according to Yonhap News of south Korea.
The south Korean authorities arrested him as soon as he crossed Panmunjom at north-south borderline after visiting the DPRK last year. They persecuted him long and at last sentenced him to severe punishment.
The court also sentenced Co-representative Han Chung Mok and several members of the Solidarity for Progress to prison term and other punishment on charges of waging anti-U.S. actions.
The south Korean authorities arrested him as soon as he crossed Panmunjom at north-south borderline after visiting the DPRK last year. They persecuted him long and at last sentenced him to severe punishment.
The court also sentenced Co-representative Han Chung Mok and several members of the Solidarity for Progress to prison term and other punishment on charges of waging anti-U.S. actions.
Monday 24 January 2011
S. Korean Supreme Court Declares Executed Party Leader Not Guilty
January 23. The south Korean supreme court declared Jo Pong Am, former head of the Progressive Party in south Korea, not guilty in a retrial on Jan. 20, according to south Korean MBC.
He was punished with death on the false charge of "rebellion and spying" 52 years ago.
The retrial proved the illegal investigation of him conducted by the army secret service agency which had no right to inquiry at that time.
The then dictator Syngman Rhee, much upset by the growing public support for him who stood for peaceful reunification, executed him as a "spy" in July, 1959.
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S. Korean Authorities' Unpopular Policy Failed
January 21. Civic and social bodies and political parties of south Korea held a ceremony in Seoul on Jan. 17 to declare a week of mourning those Ryongsan evacuees killed by the police indiscriminate crackdown.
They included the Korean Confederation of Trade Union, the Society for the Human Rights Movement, the Committee for Probing the Truth about the Ryongsan Tragedy, the Union of Evacuees and the Democratic Labor Party.
The speakers there said that although it is two years since the occurrence of the tragedy, the truth about the mass-killing is not yet probed and the evacuees are still undergoing pain behind bars for the mere reason that they struggled in demand of their vital rights.
Recalling that people in Ryongsan are forcibly evacuated due to the reckless redevelopment policy of the authorities and they are left without any shelter, they declared that this bespeaks that the second Ryongsan tragedy may take place.
They called on the people of various circles to get united to settle the issue of the Ryongsan tragedy and launch dynamic actions to force the authorities to roll back their redevelopment policy.
Earlier, the all-people committee for memorial service for the victims of the Ryongsan tragedy was formed. It groups 106 political parties and organizations and individual personages.
He was punished with death on the false charge of "rebellion and spying" 52 years ago.
The retrial proved the illegal investigation of him conducted by the army secret service agency which had no right to inquiry at that time.
The then dictator Syngman Rhee, much upset by the growing public support for him who stood for peaceful reunification, executed him as a "spy" in July, 1959.
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S. Korean Authorities' Unpopular Policy Failed
January 21. Civic and social bodies and political parties of south Korea held a ceremony in Seoul on Jan. 17 to declare a week of mourning those Ryongsan evacuees killed by the police indiscriminate crackdown.
They included the Korean Confederation of Trade Union, the Society for the Human Rights Movement, the Committee for Probing the Truth about the Ryongsan Tragedy, the Union of Evacuees and the Democratic Labor Party.
The speakers there said that although it is two years since the occurrence of the tragedy, the truth about the mass-killing is not yet probed and the evacuees are still undergoing pain behind bars for the mere reason that they struggled in demand of their vital rights.
Recalling that people in Ryongsan are forcibly evacuated due to the reckless redevelopment policy of the authorities and they are left without any shelter, they declared that this bespeaks that the second Ryongsan tragedy may take place.
They called on the people of various circles to get united to settle the issue of the Ryongsan tragedy and launch dynamic actions to force the authorities to roll back their redevelopment policy.
Earlier, the all-people committee for memorial service for the victims of the Ryongsan tragedy was formed. It groups 106 political parties and organizations and individual personages.
Monday 17 January 2011
S. Korea: Jail Term Sentenced to Citizen Praising DPRK
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- The Seoul Central District Court on Jan. 14 sentenced to jail an inhabitant on charges of violating the ill-famed "National Security Law", according to CBS of south Korea.
The court gave this sentence for the mere reason that the citizen posted on Internet articles and animation files praising the DPRK.
The court gave this sentence for the mere reason that the citizen posted on Internet articles and animation files praising the DPRK.
Wednesday 12 January 2011
Urgent Appeal: Eight South Korean Labor Activists Face 4-7 Years in Prison
I don't believe too much in the efficacy of the kind of
write-in protest advocated below, but an international
spotlight on this case just might have an effect on
the final sentencing of these exemplary militants.
Please distribute far and wide.
__________
So if you are on any listservs, please post. Thanks
Urgent Appeal: Eight South Korean Labor Activists Face
4-7
Years in Prison
On Dec. 3 of last year, the prosecutor in the Seoul
Central District Court demanded prison terms of 5-7 years for
Oh sei-chull and other members (Yang Hyo-seok, Yang
Joon-seok, Choi Young-ik, Park Joon-seon, Jeong Won-hyung, and
Oh Min-gyu) of the Socialist Workers’ Alliance of
Korea (SWLK), a revolutionary socialist group. These
activists in the Korean working-class movement were indicted under
South Korea’s notorious National Security Law (passed in
1948
and theoretically still stipulating the death penalty
for “pro-North” activities). The eight militants of
the SWLK, who as internationalists advocate working-class
revolution in both Koreas, were accused of no specific
crime except being socialists, but in reality the
indictment resulted from their intervention in several strikes
and movements going back to 2007. This is the first
instance of such harsh repression under the National Security Law
in many years. It occurs in the larger
context of the hard-right turn (such as the smashing
of the Ssangyong Motor Co. strike of 2009) of South Korean
President Lee Myong Bak’s government since he took
office in early 2008. (In fact, leaflets of the SWLK
distributed during the Ssangyong strike were key evidence in the
trial.)
Prosecutors have attempted to indict members of the
SWLK several times since 2008, and prior to December, the
prosecutors’ case was thrown out of court each time.
It is not impossible that a barrage of e-mail protests to
Judge Hyung Doo Kim of the Seoul Central District Court will
help reduce or obviate the pending sentences altogether,
when final sentencing will take place on Jan. 27.
Let Judge Kim know your feelings in your own words
about this crackdown on “thought crime” by writing to
swlk@jinbo.net
The e-mails must be received by 06:00 AM on Monday
January
17th 2011 (Seoul time), so that the SWLK’s lawyer
can
forward them to Judge Kim prior to sentencing.
Please distribute this appeal as widely as possible.
Messages in languages other than English are welcome.
Loren Goldner
For further details on this case, contact me at lrgoldner@gmail.com
write-in protest advocated below, but an international
spotlight on this case just might have an effect on
the final sentencing of these exemplary militants.
Please distribute far and wide.
__________
So if you are on any listservs, please post. Thanks
Urgent Appeal: Eight South Korean Labor Activists Face
4-7
Years in Prison
On Dec. 3 of last year, the prosecutor in the Seoul
Central District Court demanded prison terms of 5-7 years for
Oh sei-chull and other members (Yang Hyo-seok, Yang
Joon-seok, Choi Young-ik, Park Joon-seon, Jeong Won-hyung, and
Oh Min-gyu) of the Socialist Workers’ Alliance of
Korea (SWLK), a revolutionary socialist group. These
activists in the Korean working-class movement were indicted under
South Korea’s notorious National Security Law (passed in
1948
and theoretically still stipulating the death penalty
for “pro-North” activities). The eight militants of
the SWLK, who as internationalists advocate working-class
revolution in both Koreas, were accused of no specific
crime except being socialists, but in reality the
indictment resulted from their intervention in several strikes
and movements going back to 2007. This is the first
instance of such harsh repression under the National Security Law
in many years. It occurs in the larger
context of the hard-right turn (such as the smashing
of the Ssangyong Motor Co. strike of 2009) of South Korean
President Lee Myong Bak’s government since he took
office in early 2008. (In fact, leaflets of the SWLK
distributed during the Ssangyong strike were key evidence in the
trial.)
Prosecutors have attempted to indict members of the
SWLK several times since 2008, and prior to December, the
prosecutors’ case was thrown out of court each time.
It is not impossible that a barrage of e-mail protests to
Judge Hyung Doo Kim of the Seoul Central District Court will
help reduce or obviate the pending sentences altogether,
when final sentencing will take place on Jan. 27.
Let Judge Kim know your feelings in your own words
about this crackdown on “thought crime” by writing to
swlk@jinbo.net
The e-mails must be received by 06:00 AM on Monday
January
17th 2011 (Seoul time), so that the SWLK’s lawyer
can
forward them to Judge Kim prior to sentencing.
Please distribute this appeal as widely as possible.
Messages in languages other than English are welcome.
Loren Goldner
For further details on this case, contact me at lrgoldner@gmail.com
Monday 10 January 2011
Temporary workers struggle to regain jobs
The following article was published in today's (bourgeois) Korea Times:
Temporary workers struggle to regain jobs
Jan.05: Workers eat lunch during a sit-in protest in a building of Hongik University in Seoul
More than 30 janitors and cleaning ladies in their 50s and 60s have been holding a sit-in protest in the main building of Hongik University in Seoul for four days since Monday morning, demanding the school withdraw the collective termination of their employment contracts.
Despite freezing weather, they have been eating and sleeping on the cold floor of the Munheon Building on the campus. The first floor of the building was full of workers Wednesday; some chatting with one another and others preparing for another long, cold night. Many were busy preparing meals for everyone, while others were worried about their family back home.
“I worked at Hongik University for five years, and some have been here even longer, and the school told us to leave without any advance notice,” said Seo Bok-deok, 57, who was making coffee for fellow workers sitting on mats covering the cold concrete floors.
“I do wish we could have negotiations with the school, but they have not said anything,” she added.
Structural problems
The seeds of dispute were sown when 170 janitors, cleaners and guards of the school formed a labor union on Dec. 1 and demanded higher wages and better working conditions.
They were not directly hired by the school but were working for the school through contracts signed with two labor-supply companies. At the call for higher wages, the service companies asked the school to reflect their demand on contracts between the companies and school.
However, the school refused to sign the contracts, and the labor-supplying companies in turn informed the workers of the termination of contracts on Dec. 31.
The workers said they have been working, receiving hourly wages of 4,120 won, which is lower than the minimum legal wage of 4,320 won, and the school wanted them to extend the contract under the same conditions.
School officials refused to talk to reporters. They have maintained the position that the workers are not the party with which the school should talk with, as they were not directly hired by it.
Non-permanent workers
The conflict at the university is the latest in a series of labor disputes involving temporary workers. From top conglomerates and small mom-and-pop businesses, a growing number of employers are relying on these temporary workers as they can hire them at far lower wages.
The dispute at Hongik University reflects that the problem of non-regular workers is developing into a social issue that encompasses all generations from the youth to the elderly, analysts said.
According to the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), many schools have gone through such disputes with workers’ unions over the past couple of years.
Some 90 workers at Dongguk University were sacked after the school switched to a different service company, but it agreed to rehire them after they held days of demonstrations and sit-ins in December.
“The problem is that the universities usually avoid negotiations, claiming they are not the direct employers. The only way to solve this is to have them realize that the school is actually in charge of hiring and employing workers,” said Ryu Nam-mi, a policy director from the Preparation Committee for KCTU.
The student council at the school expressed their stance Thursday, saying that it in principle supports the workers who were fighting for their rights. It claimed that it was a matter to be solved between the school, workers and the contractors, indicating that the labor umbrella group should not meddle in the case.
Earlier the student council issued a statement that criticized the workers for their alliance with the militant KCTU in their struggle against the school, claiming that such protests could negatively affect the school’s reputation.
Most of the workers at Hongik worked 50 hours per week, receiving a monthly wage of 750,000 won plus 300 won for lunch a day.
When asked what she hoped for her and her fellow workers, Seo’s voice shook a bit, both from the cold and disappointment.
“There’s nothing complicated about it. We have received nothing prior to the layoffs. What more can we want? We just want our jobs back,” she said.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/01/117_79288.html
Today's struggle rally in front of Hongik University's main building
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Hankyoreh recently had the following report (oddly enough filed under "entertainment"):
HARSH RETRIBUTION
Female subcontractors that maintain and clean school facilities in Hongik University, Seoul, engage in a sit-in demonstration in front of the president’s office, demanding a meeting with the president and withdrawal of dismissals, Jan. 3.
Around 170 subcontractors in their 50s and 60s were fired last month as the university management terminated a contract with the service company that hired them. It was just several days after they organized a labor union in early December. The contracts of the subcontractors who were charge of cleaning, maintenance and security were in place since 1998 when South Korea was hit by foreign currency crisis, even though the service company hiring them changed. The only defense at this time was the fact that they made a labor union for improving treatment.
The workers usually worked from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. but earned a net income of about 750,000 Won ($668) and just 9,000 Won for lunch a month. They have shown strong determination to continue sits-in until they can work again...
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_entertainment/457145.html
Temporary workers struggle to regain jobs
Jan.05: Workers eat lunch during a sit-in protest in a building of Hongik University in Seoul
More than 30 janitors and cleaning ladies in their 50s and 60s have been holding a sit-in protest in the main building of Hongik University in Seoul for four days since Monday morning, demanding the school withdraw the collective termination of their employment contracts.
Despite freezing weather, they have been eating and sleeping on the cold floor of the Munheon Building on the campus. The first floor of the building was full of workers Wednesday; some chatting with one another and others preparing for another long, cold night. Many were busy preparing meals for everyone, while others were worried about their family back home.
“I worked at Hongik University for five years, and some have been here even longer, and the school told us to leave without any advance notice,” said Seo Bok-deok, 57, who was making coffee for fellow workers sitting on mats covering the cold concrete floors.
“I do wish we could have negotiations with the school, but they have not said anything,” she added.
Structural problems
The seeds of dispute were sown when 170 janitors, cleaners and guards of the school formed a labor union on Dec. 1 and demanded higher wages and better working conditions.
They were not directly hired by the school but were working for the school through contracts signed with two labor-supply companies. At the call for higher wages, the service companies asked the school to reflect their demand on contracts between the companies and school.
However, the school refused to sign the contracts, and the labor-supplying companies in turn informed the workers of the termination of contracts on Dec. 31.
The workers said they have been working, receiving hourly wages of 4,120 won, which is lower than the minimum legal wage of 4,320 won, and the school wanted them to extend the contract under the same conditions.
School officials refused to talk to reporters. They have maintained the position that the workers are not the party with which the school should talk with, as they were not directly hired by it.
Non-permanent workers
The conflict at the university is the latest in a series of labor disputes involving temporary workers. From top conglomerates and small mom-and-pop businesses, a growing number of employers are relying on these temporary workers as they can hire them at far lower wages.
The dispute at Hongik University reflects that the problem of non-regular workers is developing into a social issue that encompasses all generations from the youth to the elderly, analysts said.
According to the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), many schools have gone through such disputes with workers’ unions over the past couple of years.
Some 90 workers at Dongguk University were sacked after the school switched to a different service company, but it agreed to rehire them after they held days of demonstrations and sit-ins in December.
“The problem is that the universities usually avoid negotiations, claiming they are not the direct employers. The only way to solve this is to have them realize that the school is actually in charge of hiring and employing workers,” said Ryu Nam-mi, a policy director from the Preparation Committee for KCTU.
The student council at the school expressed their stance Thursday, saying that it in principle supports the workers who were fighting for their rights. It claimed that it was a matter to be solved between the school, workers and the contractors, indicating that the labor umbrella group should not meddle in the case.
Earlier the student council issued a statement that criticized the workers for their alliance with the militant KCTU in their struggle against the school, claiming that such protests could negatively affect the school’s reputation.
Most of the workers at Hongik worked 50 hours per week, receiving a monthly wage of 750,000 won plus 300 won for lunch a day.
When asked what she hoped for her and her fellow workers, Seo’s voice shook a bit, both from the cold and disappointment.
“There’s nothing complicated about it. We have received nothing prior to the layoffs. What more can we want? We just want our jobs back,” she said.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/01/117_79288.html
Today's struggle rally in front of Hongik University's main building
-----------------------------------------
Hankyoreh recently had the following report (oddly enough filed under "entertainment"):
HARSH RETRIBUTION
Female subcontractors that maintain and clean school facilities in Hongik University, Seoul, engage in a sit-in demonstration in front of the president’s office, demanding a meeting with the president and withdrawal of dismissals, Jan. 3.
Around 170 subcontractors in their 50s and 60s were fired last month as the university management terminated a contract with the service company that hired them. It was just several days after they organized a labor union in early December. The contracts of the subcontractors who were charge of cleaning, maintenance and security were in place since 1998 when South Korea was hit by foreign currency crisis, even though the service company hiring them changed. The only defense at this time was the fact that they made a labor union for improving treatment.
The workers usually worked from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. but earned a net income of about 750,000 Won ($668) and just 9,000 Won for lunch a month. They have shown strong determination to continue sits-in until they can work again...
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_entertainment/457145.html
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