Last Sunday, I met Billy and we went to downtown Seoul. At first, we were just going to walk around with Billy experimenting with his camera and taking hundreds of pictures and myself taking a lot of video. I managed to get a lot of the area in downtown Seoul and we happened to come across this Protest for Human Rights. Press play below....
Showing posts with label korean migrant workers human rights seoul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label korean migrant workers human rights seoul. Show all posts
Thursday, January 24
Sunday, January 20
Foxes Wearing Tiger Masks 1.20
I've seen a few protests in Korea but none like this and with such emotion. It's different when you know what the protest is about and I'm glad I found out afterwards exactly what they were against. There are over 400,000 Migrant workers in South Korea with most of them enduring very hard conditions, conditions most Koreans would not settle for and who rely on these people to do these so-called "Dirty, Dangerous and Demeaning" types of labour. Many of these Migrant workers are struggling to achieve more rights and with protests like these, they hope to get their message across.
As one confined Migrant Worker recently stated: "Korea is very advanced in terms of Science and Technology, but it is very backwards in terms of Humanity and the Rights of People."
If you've ever been to the Southern United States, you have seen how some whites are still racist towards the blacks. It's the same with Koreans to these Migrant Workers.
January 20, 2008
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