SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The year 2016 was marked by the largest numbers of both protests and protest participants in a decade – largely due to the national outcry against now impeached former president, Park Geun-hye – but it certainly wasn’t the most violent. According to 2006 – 2016 data from the Korean [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A new advertisement by alcoholic beverage manufacturer Absolut Vodka depicting an image of a massive anti-government rally in South Korea has stoked controversy, industry sources said Monday. The global leading vodka brand, owned by French group Pernod Ricard, disclosed its new advertisement on its official Facebook on Saturday. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – For the fifth weekend in a row, hundreds of thousands of Koreans took to the streets demanding the resignation of President Park Geun-hye, who is suspected of a host of illicit activities related to corruption and abuse of power. The latest protests, however, were noted by their integration with [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of Korean women who identified themselves as BWAVE (Black Wave), from Poland’s “Black Monday” strike against an abortion ban, held a rally Sunday in Myeongdong, Seoul, calling for the legalization of abortion. Some twenty women dressed in black and wearing masks chanted slogans such as “it’s a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans are expected to join an anti-government protest Saturday, police and civic groups said, amid rising public anger over President Park Geun-hye’s corruption scandal. The rally, involving some 1,500 civic groups, may draw the largest number of participants this millennium, with the police expecting [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Locals in Seongju County, which was chosen by the government Wednesday as the site for THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) battery deployment, took to the streets vehemently criticizing the decision. There took place a similar protest in front of the defense ministry building in Seoul on the same day [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – July 16 is the legal deadline to set next year’s minimum hourly wage, and while members of a part-time workers organization protested for an increase to 10,000 won at Gwanghwamun Plaza Tuesday, another rally was organized by other groups that are pushing the government to freeze wages for 2017. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - An association of 118 civic groups will hold a street demonstration in central Seoul this weekend, police said Friday, following a court ruling that overturned the police ban on the rally. It is the second rally after one in mid-November, which brought tens of thousands of demonstrators to the streets [...]