Note to self: never EVER mess with Korean labor protestors

[Bosh]

mms://newsvod.imnews.imbc.com/imnews/imtv/cbrief/2005/04/15/0415HID_MBC_WMV300_1.wmv

http://220.73.158.241/general/mov/2005/0517/200505171834030040_s.wmv

http://pub.hitel.net/sjc072/fire.avi

mms://ohmyvod.ohmynews.com/ohmytv/vod/200/rofmay_82701_1[1].wmv

http://www.tongtong.tv/cafe2/war-fight.asx

mms://media.cast.or.kr/kndic/movie/05_0710_ptm.wmv
mms://222.122.13.72/chungtv/fivestar/050710.wmv

http://kr.img.dc.yahoo.com/b13/data/dci_movie/bongnine_CP.wmv

[chequita guevara]

I love Korean labor protestors. They could show American labor a thing or two.

[Bosh]

Watch some of the linked videos, especially fire and bongnine...

[laurentius]

fighting for your rights

[chequita guevara]

If only they were communists.

[Provost Harrison]

Sheesh, that is some protest. I think the BA people at the moment should do something like that to that damned catering company

[Zkribbler]

cathartic, yes, but did it get them raises, better working condictions, a more secure pension, etc?

[chequita guevara]

It got them a democracy ten years ago.

[Winston]

Holy smokes.

I imagine a lot of them have a bright future in Korean politics...

[Bosh]

Keep in mind that all the riot cops are drafted kids getting paid a whoooooooooooooooooooole lot less money than any of the protestors. Poor kids

But korean labor unions have managed to push the country towards five-day workweeks over the last couple years.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Bosh
Watch some of the linked videos, especially fire and bongnine...

Whussa matter? Offends your bourgeois sensibilities?

[Flubber]

In some of them, its tough at first to see who is the protester and who is the police. I mean . . . in lots of the photos you see two uniformed groups carrying uniform weapons/shields and in similar numbers.

I actually feel for the majority of folks on both sides. Most of the workers get caught up in the moment when all they want is better conmditions. As for the police, those guys are just worker bees too. Its ironic that a protect against the management/ elite manifests iteslf in a whole bunch of lower and middle income folks whaling away at each other

[Winston]

Uncritical celebration of massive violence just because the word "labour" happens to be involved.

[chequita guevara]

Korea is an authoritarian state with the corporations firmly in control, even if moderate-left-wingers win the elections from time to time. Yeah, I feel bad for the draftees, but when you stand against freedom, I'm not gonna feel too bad.

[Combat Ingrid]

What are these people protesting against? Lack of violence?