On Tuesday, November 27th, the entire executive of South Korea’s Migrant Trade Union was arrested by immigration officials in three co-coordinated morning…
On July 1st South Korea‘s new Law on Non-Regular Work came into effect. The principle of the law was to protect non-regular…
Anti-corporate globalization protests are scheduled in Korea this week as part of larger efforts by Korean social movements to confront the effects…
Angry protests in Busan, South Korea during an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference there in November have alarmed Hong Kong police…
The fight against the expansion of irregular work to wide segments of the Korean workforce entered a new phase last week with…
The Equality Trade Union Ć¢€ā MigrantsĆ¢€ā¢ Branch (ETU-MB), a trade union of largely undocumented migrant workers in South Korea, ended its 380…
The Equality Trade Union Ć¢€ā MigrantsĆ¢€ā¢ Branch (ETU-MB), a trade union of largely undocumented migrant workers in South Korea, ended its 380…
“Apparently the government has posted undercover immigration cops outside of the public baths,” a friend with the Equality Trade Union – Migrants’…
Last Sunday February 16th, Samar Thapa was on his way to deliver solidarity flyers to a group of Filipino activists in Seoul’s…
The South Korean government has decided to solve the problem of politicized migrants with a mixture of indirect negotiation and brutal force.…
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