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All posts tagged "protest"

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  Part-timers call for McDonald’s to scrap 45-second rule on making burgers in S. Korea

  By Kim Bo-eun Lee Ga-hyun, 22, has a burn on her arm, which she sustained while working for a year at a McDonald’s store in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province. Her position was at the grill, which meant she...

  • Posted March 2, 2016
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  Police seek to punish Amnesty International Korea for hologram protest

  By Kim Se-jeong Police in Seoul are seeking to punish Amnesty International Korea for waging an anti-government “ghost rally” using holographic images, the first of its kind in Korea. The international human rights group projected holographic images...

  • Posted February 24, 2016
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  Protesters hold massive anti-gov’t rally without clash with police

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — Tens of thousands of protesters held a massive rally Saturday to protest the government’s move to adopt state history textbooks and push for labor reform and it ended without any clashes with police. The...

  • Posted December 6, 2015
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  President Park compares masked protesters to ISIS

      On Nov. 14, over 70,000 people openly protested South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s policies on labor reform and rewritten history textbooks in Seoul. Violent clashes erupted, which included police firing tear gas and water cannons...

  • Posted November 25, 2015
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  Blame game ensues after S. Korean protest goes violent

  By Lee Kyung-min Tension is escalating between police and protesters over who should be held accountable for Saturday’s rally that left one protestor unconscious and more than 140 people injured ― 113 police officers and 29 rally...

  • Posted November 16, 2015
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  S. Korean musicians gather to fight state textbook move

  By The Korea Times Seoul staff South Korea’s rockers, rappers and other media personalities will gather at Hongdae — Seoul’s popular hipster hotspot — to raise their voices against the government’s controversial move to author history textbooks....

  • Posted November 3, 2015
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  U.S. scholars express strong protest against Japan’s attempt to ‘censor history’

  WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — A group of American history scholars expressed strong protest against Japan’s attempts to pressure a textbook publisher to change the description of the country’s sexual enslavement of women during World War II, saying no...

  • Posted February 5, 2015
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