In this episode, we take a look at the South Korean labour movement including an interview with Mikyung Ryu, international director of the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions. We were also at the November 9th labour rally in Yeouido to hear from participants.

The music you heard in this episode is:
‘노조가 온다’ (Nojoga Onda)by Yamagata Tweakster, on Soundcloud: @yamayamayamayama and 'Movement Proposition' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

References and Recommended Reading:
A Single Spark. Directed by Park Kwang-su, performance by Moon Sung-Keun, Hong Kyung-In, Kim Seon-Jai, Lee Joo-Sil, 1995: www.youtube.com/channel/UChKZZBMc5qwNY2tuKN2dRDQ
Chang, Paul Y., Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea’s Democracy Movement, 1970-1979 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015).
Cho, Youngrae, A Single Spark: The Biography of Chun Tae-il, Translated by Chun Soon-ok (Dolbegae Publishers, 1983).
Chun, Soon-ok, They are not Machines: Korean Women Workers and their Fight for Democratic Trade Unionism in the 1970s, (London: Ashgate, 2003).
Koo Hagen, Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001).
Ogle, George E., South Korea: Dissent within the Economic Miracle (London: Zed Books Ltd., 1990).
Park, Nohae, ’The Dawn of Labor’ Translated by An Sonjae, Brother Anthony of Taize: anthony.sogang.ac.kr/ParkNohaeBio.html

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