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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 (...)
The Sixth Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) was held from December 26 to 31 last year. December 26 was the day when the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of South and North Koreas crossed into each other’s countries.
At the beginning of (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
North Korea’s provocative regime of missile testing has prompted the South to designate it as an enemy.
North Korea began 2023 as it had ended 2022 – with some characteristic sabre-rattling in the form of missile tests. Having launched more missiles in 2022 than in any other year, on the morning (...)
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 (...)
Korea faces the same democratic deficits as other countries—polarized opinion, rising populism, pervasive fake news—just when it needs responsive democracy the most.
The German government recently arrested 25 members of a conspiratorial right-wing group plotting to overthrow the government. One (...)
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 (...)
Kim Jong-un has continued to promote development of ballistic missiles as the main delivery vehicles of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction from 2012. On October 10, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that seven times of launching drills were conducted by the tactical (...)
Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities are increasing, but there is limited international capacity for or interest in addressing them.
The details vary, but the pattern is immediately recognisable: a volley of missiles, followed by chilling new rhetoric. This time, North Korean state media said the (...)
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 (...)
Fake news about Kim Jong-Un gets wall-to-wall coverage but citizens of a key ally opposing a joint military exercise goes largely unnoticed.
In America these days, almost any information about North Korea, be it rumor, fake news, or just plain silly, becomes fodder for the mainstream media. (...)
North Korea’s dictator Kim Jung-Un has given his elite supporters masks and privileged access to healthcare.
For most of the COVID pandemic, North Korea has taken a different approach to the rest of the world. While other countries locked down and restricted international travel, the North (...)
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020. But it’s only in recent days, in May 2022, that the secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has reported its first confirmed cases of the virus.
While it may seem somewhat astounding that a country (...)
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 (...)
In the South Korean presidential election conducted on March 9, Yun Seok-yeol of the conservative opposition party “People Power Party (PPP)” won over Lee Jae-myung of the progressive ruling party "Democratic Party of Korea (DPK)” by a narrow margin of 240,000 votes. The vote percentages for the (...)
The hostility of the conservative party has pushed the disability-rights movement to the center of a larger fight for minority groups in South Korea.
SEOUL—April 15 marked the 91st day of a dramatic confrontation at Hyehwa station in the middle of the South Korean capital. Disability rights (...)
North Korea has clarified its position to support Russia externally. Although The UN General Assembly (UNGA) overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on March 2 demanding that Russia immediately end its military operations in Ukraine, North Korea voted against it with other four countries: Belarus, (...)
Workers, farmers and the urban poor, battered by the pandemic, are demanding labor protections and structural reforms.
On January 15, a coalition of workers across South Korea — rural farmers, the urban poor and laborers — will gather in downtown Seoul for a National All-People’s Mobilization, in a (...)
When North Korean state media reported that the Workers Party’s convened a plenary meeting of its 8th Central Committee on December 27, it signaled that Kim Jong Un might not deliver a New Year’s Day address this year. Sure enough, state media instead reported on the results of the five-day (...)
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