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 "From now on, we will stop having salts and enzymes. We don't know how long we can stand, but we will continue until the moment when the Giryung Electronics makes good decisions for workers. Although we go down, we will refuse taking emergency measures nor being hospitalized."
KIM Soyoun and YU Heunghee unionists on hunger strikes in the tent on the rooftop of the company refused interviews. But around 11am during a press conference, they sent a letter. As soon as participants looked at the letter, they were agitated and unsettled. That's because it showed their firm determination that they would stop having salts and enzymes, and further would refuse taking emergency measures and being hospitalized.
They also wrote "We are so sorry that we make you worrying. Last night when thunder stroke and a lot of rains fell, we discussed and found the only way to struggle is this." With the humble bow, all the participants knew what they meant. more>>
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 Korean Women Workers Association kept the 29th anniversary of the death of Martyr KIM Kyeongsook (on August 11, 2008). Members of the YH Association and 70s' Democratic Workers' Association joined together.
YH incident (the death of Martyr KIM Kyeongsook) as well as the death of Martyr CHUN Tae-il was the two biggest labor incidents in the 1970s, and it was an opportunity and proved an incentive to lead up the deprivation of the congress membership of the chairperson of the opposition party, as a consequence, the democratic movement by people in Pusan and Masan, and finally, the collapse of the Park's dictatorial regime.
In this year, the government recognized the death of Martyr KIM Kyeongsook as 'a murder by public power' by the government.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission declared that KIM Kyungsook (at the age of 21), a YH unionist had been killed due to the excessive suppression by the police in the process of quelling striking women workers in the office of the New Democratic Party, an opposition party in 1979. more>>
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