SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Seniors at a medical school vowed Thursday to take a one-year leave of absence en masse in protest of the government’s plan to raise the enrollment quota of medical schools. The fourth-year students of the college of medicine at Hallym University in the eastern city of Chuncheon unanimously agreed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — In the quiet town of Miryang, South Korea, a determined group of elderly women, colloquially known as the “Miryang Grandmothers,” have become synonymous with a relentless campaign against the construction of power transmission towers. This year marks the 19th anniversary of their struggle, which began in 2005 when the government [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s education chief began a one-person protest Wednesday to oppose the abolition of a student rights ordinance. Cho Hee-yeon, superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, embarked on the protest on Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul on Wednesday morning and plans to continue the demonstration for eight days [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An association of dog meat farmers held a protest rally Tuesday against a proposed bill banning the consumption of dog meat, saying unilateral legislation amounts to an abuse of legislative power. The protest by members of the Korean Dog Meat Association came as a subcommittee of the parliamentary committee on agriculture and food was set to discuss a special bill banning the raising of dogs for meat, as well as the butchering, distributing and selling [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of Seoul subway lines No. 1-8, announced measures Thursday to ban all subway protests by a disabled advocacy group after they resumed their morning rush-hour protest this week. Seoul Metro said it came up with the three-step countermeasures against Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) on [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Tens of thousands of teachers staged a large-scale protest in downtown Seoul on Saturday, calling for the normalization of the public education, after a colleague took her own life at an elementary school last week. Police estimated that around 21,000 activists took part in the event, while organizers asserted [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign worker organizations, including the Migrant Trade Union and the Migrant Workers’ Equality Alliance, protested in Seoul on April 30, one day before Labor Day, to demand better working conditions. They chanted “guarantee freedom of movement at workplaces” and staged a chain performance to attract attention. They called for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of Chinese students studying in South Korea on Saturday held a demonstration against the Chinese government’s strict zero-COVID policy. This was the first anti-regime protest held by Chinese individuals in the country after controversy over a secret Chinese police station erupted. Six Chinese students and members of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Study-abroad students from China are raising their voices about their home country’s zero-COVID policy. Recently, campus boards in Korea University and Chung-Ang University were posted with various anti-Chinese slogans like “CCP (Chinese Communist Party) OUT”, “Free China” and “It’s my duty.” Chinese students and residents on Wednesday, showed up [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of neighbors who live near President Yoon Suk-yeol’s private home filed a petition Wednesday asking police to stop noisy protest rallies in their neighborhood. Employing loudspeakers, progressive protestors from YouTube news channel Voice of Seoul have been staging daily rallies in front of Yoon’s apartment building in southern [...]