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Since Park Geun-hye's ascent to the presidential seat labor-unfriendly South Korea has drastically increased criminal prosecutions, acts of covert police violence against leading union members, and leveled increasingly hostile legal regulations against blue collar workers. Since the 1996-7 automotive and shipping strikes (Over 1.2 million workers!) the government has maintained a similar stance, but Park Geun-hye's contemporary anti labor/union stance affects a much smaller percentage of the S. Korean population, as the #'s of blue collar workers/jobs have decreased dramatically. As a result, these ongoing protests have received little press coverage and I'd like to bring a few recent instances to light, and open the floor to further discussion on the South Korean labor situation.

33 members of a teacher's union face prosecution for striking:
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/697788.html
police raid offices of several unions:
http://strongerunions.org/2015/11/24/koreas-broken-promises-sound-alarm-over-oecd-membership-trade-agreements/
union leader and organizer Han Sang-gyun jailed for 5 years for organizing protests:
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/756272.html
South Korea further reduces rights to peaceful assembly, public gathering
https://usilive.org/south-korea-a-government-at-war-with-democracy/
Young South Koreans call their country ‘hell’ and look for ways out (almost every single complaint in this article has to do with employment or wages):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/young-south-koreans-call-their-country-hell-and-look-for-ways-out/2016/01/30/34737c06-b967-11e5-85cd-5ad59bc19432_story.html

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