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    This site was created in order to provide timely information -- and concrete suggestions for action -- for trade unionists and social change activists around the world.

    Left: Leaders of Korea's independent unions at the annual workers' rally in Seoul, 8 November 1997. Photo credit: Eric Lee.


    The site will be updated as conditions warrant. Today, it includes the following features:

    • Korean Labour News (now through LabourStart)
    • Korean Labour Links - updated 26.4.98
    • Why Korea? Why Now?
    • Korean Workers:
      Myths and Reality
    • South Korea:
      The unions, the Net and the next general strike
    • Seoul International LaborMedia 97
    • Who's Behind This Page?


    Seoul International LaborMedia 97

    New! Conference report by Peter Waterman is now available online. Click here to read it. UPDATED 14.1.98
    Conference papers (in English) are now available at the LaborMedia 97 website (URL below). UPDATED 29.11.97

    When future historians look back at the origins of the new labour internationalism of the early 21st century, this is one of the places they are going to begin. This remarkable event, organized by a number of labour support groups together with the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, brought together video and Internet activists from labour movements in North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Korea. The more than 300 page long book produced in advance of the event (in English and Korean) will itself be a valuable tool for further organizing.

    Suggestion for action: Visit and link to the LaborMedia home page -- http://kpd.sing-kr.org/labormedia/. Get hold of the conference papers as they are published online. Spread the word.

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    Who's Behind This Page?

    This site is being edited by Eric Lee, the author of The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism. It is not officially sanctioned in any way by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions or any of the other organizations which it links to, and they are not responsible for its content. Please send feedback by clicking here.

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    From the original "Solidarity with Korea's Labour Movement" site launched in November 1997:

    • Human Rights Activist Jailed
    • Sammi Steel Workers on Hunger Strike
    • Korean Government Bans Geocities
    • Peoples Victory 21 - Korean Labour Leader Runs for President


    LabourStart is edited by Eric Lee, the author of The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism (Pluto Press, London , 1996) and lots of articles about the same subject. The original content of this page is © 1998 by Eric Lee.