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, by POPE Kyle
The leadup to the election saw President Yoon Suk-yeol embroiled in a series of damaging incidents. His party paid the price.
The South Korean electorate delivered a crushing blow to President Yoon Suk-yeol and the ruling conservative People Power Party (PPP) in the April 10 legislative (…)
, by Reuters
SEOUL — South Korean police launched a raid on Friday (March 1) targeting officials of the Korean Medical Association, as authorities step up pressure to end a walkout by trainee doctors protesting against plans to reform the health system.
The raid comes ahead of a mass demonstration in (…)
, by BATTERSBY Amanda
Subcontractor lost his life in fatal workshop blast
Hanwha Ocean’s unionised workers have reportedly asked the South Korean authorities to arrest the offshore and marine company’s chief executive Hyek Woong Kwon following the recent fatal accident at its Okpo yard on Geoje Island.
These (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, WON Youngsu
Youngsu Won is a socialist and coordinator of the International Forum in South Korea. Speaking to Federico Fuentes, from LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, he discusses how rising tensions between the United States and China impact South Korean politics.
Federico Fuentes - South (…)
, by KIM E. Tammy
In recent months, authorities have raided offices of press outlets publishing critical reports on President Yoon Suk-yeol.
Americans may not know much about the South Korean President, Yoon Suk-yeol, but some will have noticed that he’s not a bad singer. In April, when Joe and Jill Biden (…)
, by ALVAREZ Maximillian, PARK Ju-Hyun
In the face of widespread repression, South Korean workers are rising up for fair pay and labor protections.
Within the past two years, South Korea has seen major labor actions. Hundreds of thousands of workers have mobilized in response to multiple calls for general strikes, and the (…)
, by CHEON Ho-sung, LIM Jae-hee
Among their demands include a nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:5 and the strengthening of public health care
Unionized health care and medical workers in Korea went on general strike on Thursday to demand better working conditions to allow them to better care for patients.
The Korean Health and (…)
, by YANG Dongmin
After the self-immolation protest death of a union leader, South Korean construction workers have held daily candlelight vigils and mobilized in the tens of thousands against President Yoon’s war on labor.
On May 1, 2023, Yang Hoe-Dong, district leader of the Korean Construction Workers’ (…)
, by TILLMAN Clive
One hundred and thirty thousand South Korean workers rallied across 14 cities on May 1. Organisers estimate 80,000 took part In the country’s capital, Seoul. It was the largest turnout for a political rally in the country since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The rally was endorsed by the (…)
, by HONG Myungkyo
On May Day, a local union leader surnamed Yang, from the Korean Construction Workers Union (KCWU), set himself on fire outside of a court to protest the concerted prosecution against trade unionists like him for carrying out union organizing activities.
A number of construction workers’ (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
The above was a front page headline for a story that appeared in the May 3 New York Times.
The “comfort women”, a euphemism for Korean women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese colonial government during the Second World War, are well known.
Now newly released South Korean government (…)
, by BLUTH Christoph
The rendition of Don McLean’s classic pop song American Pie by Yoon Suk Yeol may have dominated the headlines as the South Korean president enjoyed dinner at the White House with Joe Biden – Yoon is, reportedly, a devotee of “noraebang”, Korean karaoke. But the frivolity of the moment was a (…)
, by LEE Hyunok
In recent times, there is growing discussion around the crisis of social reproduction and care. South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world, while Japan is similarly wrestling with the same issue and a fast aging population. Even China has seen its population fall for the first time (…)
, by KANG Youbin
In December 2022, TruckSol, a trade union of South Korean truck drivers, waged a massive 16-day strike that cost employers over $2 billion. The union’s history and organizing strategy have lessons for precariously employed workers around the world.
In the 1970s, my grandfather bought a (…)
On January 24, women trade unionists in the Philippines held a silent protest in front of the Makati Diamond Hotel where the International Labour Organization (ILO) High Level Tripartite Mission (HLTM) had meetings with government agencies.
They chanted, “Women workers united, will never be (…)
, by CHANG Dae-Oup
On 18 January, the National Intelligence Service raided the headquarters of Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU). What happened, and why? Here is an Explainer.
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Editor’s Note:
On 18 January, the National Intelligence Service and police raided the headquarters of the (…)
, by HONG Yong-hui
In South Korea, there was a focus on hate and discrimination against transgender people in 2020 and 2021, when the Covid-19 backlash targeted LGBTIQ people.
Byun Hui-su, the first known transgender soldier in South Korea, wanted a transfer to the military’s female corps after undergoing (…)
, par AHN Ashley
Feminists in South Korea are planning to conduct nationwide protests against gender-based violence this weekend, the first to occur simultaneously in several major cities since the pandemic.
It’s a response to an anti-feminist wave that has swept across South Korea, creating a tense gender war (…)
, by YAMANAKA Karen
For several days from 8 August, heavy rains fell continuously mainly in the Seoul metropolitan area, flooding homes, roads and subway stations of Seoul. By 10 August, at least 11 people had been killed, about 570 had temporarily lost their homes, and seven others were missing as a result of the (…)
, by YAMANAKA Karen
In 1995, Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing declared gender mainstreaming as major global strategy. The strategy aimed at making feminism to the mainstream in the context of the global neoliberal era. The strategy promoted abolition of discrimination against women in the institutional (…)
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