In this episode, we take a look at the South Korean labour movement including an interview with Mikyung Ryu, international director of the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions. We were also at the November 9th labour rally in Yeouido to hear from participants.

The music you heard in this episode is:
‘노조가 온다’ (Nojoga Onda)by Yamagata Tweakster, on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/yamayamayamayama and 'Movement Proposition' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

References and Recommended Reading:
A Single Spark. Directed by Park Kwang-su, performance by Moon Sung-Keun, Hong Kyung-In, Kim Seon-Jai, Lee Joo-Sil, 1995: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChKZZBMc5qwNY2tuKN2dRDQ
Chang, Paul Y., Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea’s Democracy Movement, 1970-1979 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015).
Cho, Youngrae, A Single Spark: The Biography of Chun Tae-il, Translated by Chun Soon-ok (Dolbegae Publishers, 1983).
Chun, Soon-ok, They are not Machines: Korean Women Workers and their Fight for Democratic Trade Unionism in the 1970s, (London: Ashgate, 2003). 
Koo Hagen, Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001).
Ogle, George E., South Korea: Dissent within the Economic Miracle (London: Zed Books Ltd., 1990).
Park, Nohae, ’The Dawn of Labor’ Translated by An Sonjae, Brother Anthony of Taize: anthony.sogang.ac.kr/ParkNohaeBio.html

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Ep. 2: The Labour Movement

In this episode, we take a look at the migrant worker movement in South Korea including an interview with Shekh al Mamun, vice president of the Migrants’ Trade Union and activist-academic Chulhyo Kim. We were also at the December 15th Migrant Workers’ Day rally in Dongdaemun to hear from participants.
 
The music you heard in this episode is:
‘Pay Day’ and ‘The Grave of the Hand’ by Stop Crackdown and 'Movement Proposition' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
 
References and Recommended Reading:
 
Kim, Chulhyo, Temporary labour migration, social movements and neoliberal transformation in South Korea, PhD thesis, Sydney University, 2018: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326010450_Temporary_labour_migration_social_movements_and_neoliberal_transformation_in_South_Korea_Temporary_labour_migration_social_movements_and_neoliberal_transformation_in_South_Korea
 
Doucette, Jamie and Prey, Robert, ‘Between Migrant and Minjung: The Changing Face of Migrant Cultural Activism in Korea’, Asia Pacific Journal, 22 March 2010, Vol. 8, Issue 12, No. 2: https://apjjf.org/-Jamie-Doucette/3323/article.html.
 
Hye-Kyung Lee, ‘Gender, Migration and Civil Activism in South Korea, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal’, Vol. 12, No. 1-2, 2003, pp. 127-153.
 
Jun, EuyRyung, ‘"The frog that has forgotten its past": advocating for migrant worker rights in South Korea’, positions: east asia cultures critique, Vol 24: No. 23, Aug 2016, pp. 669-692.
 
Jun, EuyRyung, ‘Migrant Workers Amidst the Waves of Volunteers: Participation and Empowerment in South Korean Migrant Advocacy’, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 89, No. 3 (2016), pp. 753–780.
 
Jung, Sungshin, ‘From Undocumented Migrant Workers to Migrant Media Activists: A Case Study of MWTV Migrant Media Activists’, Korean Anthropology Review, vol. 3 (February 2019), pp. 175-210.
 
Koo, Se-Woong ‘The fight to secure migrant workers’ rights continues in South Korea’, Equal Times, 8 October 2015: https://www.equaltimes.org/the-fight-to-secure-migrant?lang=en#.XgBbtUczZPZ.
 
MacDonald, Sam, ‘Migrant workers’ victory in Korea’, RS21, 24 August 2015: https://www.rs21.org.uk/2015/08/24/migrant-workers-victory-in-korea/.
 
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Ep. 3: The Migrant Workers Movement

Contemporary Rebellions: South Korean Social Movements Today
Episode 4: Redevelopment Resistance

Redevelopment resistance activist organizations:

Listen to the City: http://listentothecity.org/
National Alliance of Squatters and Evictees: https://www.nasepl.org/
Korean People’s Solidarity Against Poverty: http://antipoor.jinbo.net/xe/index.php

Independent artists you heard in this episode:

Kevin MacLeod (Intro): www.incompetech.com
Anakin Project: https://anakinproject.bandcamp.com
Gentrification Album: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Em8zrOa6uaFnFfH8YbtJR
Liberation Film: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfnbnIBUbQ9dVprZpaW-bmg
Kim Dongsan: www.youtube.com/channel/UC8to_vxn-7ukkE0hMM2ShgA
Korean IndyMedia: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJNPpMJXJ75NifXbt4adTOQ
Kyung Ha & Semin: https://www.youtube.com/user/hwangtab
Seth Mountain: https://sethmartinandthemenders.bandcamp.com

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REFERENCES & RECOMMENDED READINGS

‘Excessive use of police force partly to blame for Yongsan tragedy: internal inquiry’, Yonhap News Agency, September 5, 2018.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20180905005900315

Davis Kim, Lisa, ‘Housing, Evictions and the Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics’, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2007.

Ha, Seong-Kyu, ‘Redevelopment of Substandard Settlements and Evictions in Seoul’, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Chung-Ang University, Korea, 2000.  

Lee, Jong Youl, Chad Anderson, ‘The Yongsan Tragedy and the Politics of Scenes’, 한국행정학회 학술발표논문집 The Korean Association for Public Administration, 2010, pp. 511-533.

Michael, Chris, ‘‘I’m Panicking’: Seoul rips out its manufacturing heart’, The Guardian, February 20, 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/20/end-of-an-era-seoul-prepares-to-rip-out-its-manufacturing-heart

Mobrand, Erik, ‘Struggles over Unlicensed Housing in Seoul, 1960–80’, Urban Studies 45 (2), February 2008, pp. 367-389.  

Park, Eunseon, ‘Skills of Occupation and Techne of Squatting: Sit-in Protests in South Korea Since 2009’, Critical Planning, 2017, pp. 197-213.

Sangyye-Dong Olympics. Directed by Kim Dong-won, 1988.

‘Seoul’s historic Noryangjin fish market is destined for shiny new venue but outraged vendors insist they prefer their old home’, February 24, 2016, South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/1916128/seouls-historic-noryangjin-fish-market-destined-shiny-new-venue

Shin, Mijoo, ‘The Invisible Hands Behind South Korea’s Errand Men’, Korea Expose, March 8, 2018. https://www.koreaexpose.com/invisible-hands-south-korea-errand-men/

Shin, Hyun Bang, ‘Property-based redevelopment and gentrification: The case of Seoul, South Korea’, Geoforum 40, 2009, pp. 906–917.

The Remnants. Directed by Kim Il-rhan, Lee Hyuk-sang, appearances by Kim Ju-hwan, Kim Chang-su, Lee Chung-yeon, Ji Seok-jun, Chun Ju-seok. https://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/films/index/filmsView.jsp?movieCd=20169443

Those Who Can't Leave: A Story of People Resisting Redevelopment. Korean IndyMedia, 2009. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJNPpMJXJ75NifXbt4adTOQ

Two Doors. Directed by Kim Il-rhan, Hong Ji-you, appearances by Kwon Yeongguk, Kim Hyeongtae, Ryoo Juhyeong, 2012: https://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/films/index/filmsView.jsp?movieCd=20112443

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Ep. 4: Redevelopment Resistance

Exploring South Korea's diverse social movements through interviews with practitioners and participants in the field, factories and streets.

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