By @LiveJ: South Korean Actress Promotes Labour Protest

Jun 17

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By @LiveJ: South Korean Actress Promotes Labour Protest

This is a story posted by Stream Contributor @LiveJ: A South Korean activist has been living on a crane for more than 160 days, protesting against employee dismissals at Hanjin Heavy Industries. An actress attracted attention to her cause via Twitter.

View the story "By @LiveJ: South Korean Actress Promotes Labour Protest" on StorifyBy @LiveJ: South Korean Actress Promotes Labour ProtestThis is a story posted by Stream Contributor @LiveJ: A South Korean activist has been living on a crane for more than 160 days, protesting against employee dismissals at Hanjin Heavy Industries. An actress attracted attention to her cause via Twitter.Storified by The Stream · Wed, Oct 26 2011 21:59:32sOUTH KOREAAJstreamOn The Stream we invite our audience to send us their stories using a tool called Storify. This story was created by user @LiveJ. The original version is available here:An actress promotes the strike of her Twitter friend.A S.Korean actress promotes the labour protest of her Twitter friend, who has been on a crane for more than 160 days.@LiveJ provides context:<p></p><div>Labours of Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction (HHIC) in Busan, S.Korea have protested against redundant.</div><div><br></div><div>Kim, Jin-Sook <a href="http://twitter.com/JINSUK_85">@JINSUK_85</a>, who is a member of the direction committee for the Busan office of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), is protesting and living on a crane for more than 160 days. During the protest, Jin-Suk has tweeted her story on the crane.</div><div><br></div><div>Kim, Yeo-Jin <a href="http://twitter.com/yohjini">@yohjini</a>, an actress, met her on Twitter and visited the crane, where Jin-Sook is, last weekend. After then, she argues HHIC needs to talk with the labours' union for the end of the protest and Jin-Sook's safe return. </div><p></p>박지호 | Ji-Ho PARK Actress's support draws public attention to female laborer's fight :: 네이버 뉴스<p>The two images below are Messages from <a href="http://twitter.com/yohijini">@yohijini</a></p>박지호 | Ji-Ho PARK yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/kiu55lj Shared by yohjiniyfrog.comyfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/kely8xj Shared by yohjiniyfrog.com<p>This is the story of <a href="http://twitter.com/yohjini">@yohjini</a> and her twitter friend <a href="http://twitter.com/JINSUK_85">@JINSUK_85</a>, who is living on a crane for more than 160 days.</p>박지호 | Ji-Ho PARK Actress tweets visit and arrest at labor sit-in site : National : Home85 crane at the Hanjin Heavy Industries' (HHI) Yeongdo shipyard, over the period between approximate 1 am on June 12, when the “Hope Busses for a World Without Layoffs and Temporary Workers” rolled into the vicinity under around 11:40 the next morning. ... Do you have a story to tell? Use Storify to put it together and send it The Stream via Twitter or Facebook.

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