Repression of labour activists in South Korea intensifies with jail sentences

from Asia Pacific Currents · host Jiselle Hanna & Mikyung Ryu

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Mikyung Ryu, International Relations Officer with the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), on the 5 year jail sentence given to Han Sang-gyun, KCTU President, the detention and arrests of other prominent labour leaders, and the significance of this crakdown on the working class movement in South Korea.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

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