BUSAN, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Jin-suk, a labor activist well known for her 309-day sit-in protest atop a giant shipyard crane 10 years ago, was symbolically reinstated to her company Friday, 37 years after she was fired due to union activities. Kim attended the ceremony for her honorary reinstatement and retirement at HJ [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — In memory of an iconic labor rights activist who burned himself to death 50 years ago in the heart of Seoul to fight for better working conditions, an international academic forum is under way here this week for discussions on the future of the labor movement, the metropolitan government [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — In 2011, Kim Jin-suk climbed up a shipyard crane in a high-profile protest against the dismissal of hundreds of workers at midsized shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. The labor activist of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions came down from the 35-meter-high tower crane in the southeastern [...]