The last few months in South Korea have seen a number of mobilisations by workers in defence of their rights and conditions amid a continual crackdown by the South Korean government (see here, here, here and here). This repression culminated this week with the arrest of Hang Sang Kyun, the leader of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. This is not the first time that Sang Kyun has been arrested having been involved in the heroic Ssangyong occupation in 2009. Sang Kyun has released a defiant statement calling on all workers to keep fighting and to come out for a general strike on Wednesday the 16 of December.
The last few months in South Korea have seen a number of mobilisations by workers in defence of their rights and conditions amid a continual crackdown by the South Korean government (see here, here, here and here). This repression culminated this week with the arrest of Hang Sang Kyun, the leader of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. This is not the first time that Sang Kyun has been arrested having been involved in the heroic Ssangyong occupation in 2009. Sang Kyun has released a defiant statement calling on all workers to keep fighting and to come out for a general strike on Wednesday the 16 of December.
