Suicide in South Korea

At first on Saturday (10.27) in Incheon, during a demonstration of construction workers - since 120 days the KFCITU (Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions) is striking there for better working conditions [construction workers in S.K. are subjects of maximum exploitation: many of them are just irregular workers, the working time is very long - at least 6 days a week, minimum 10 hours per day, the risk of (deadly) work accidents is extreme high, the payment is very low..] - KFCITU member Jeong Hae-jin committed public suicide by burning himself. Actually a great loss, but likeley for nothing, because the S.K. capitalists and the gov't are giving a shit on actions like that!!

Later the same day in Seoul (on Yeoui-do, near the National Assembly, the S.K. parliament) the "2007 National Rally of Irregular Workers" took place. According to reports of the independent media around 2000 workers joined the rally. BTW, there are at least 8,000,000 irregular workers in S.K.!!!

http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/?d=2007-10-28