Asia People and Social Movements¹ Call to Action June 14-15, 2004, Seoul, Korea We, the Asia Social and People¹s Movements - trade unions, peasants, small farmers, women, consumers, students, migrant workers, urban poor, anti-war and anti-neoliberal globalization activists - have gathered here in Seoul, Korea to demonstrate against the World Eco...
2004/06/16 00:00 2004/06/16 00:00
Ever since the massive Internet shutdown on January 25, 2003 crippled Korea's communication system, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) has been waiting for an accurate investigation by government. The Ministry of Information and Communication's announcement, however, stated only the obvious: that a computer virus named Slammer was the...
2003/03/21 00:00 2003/03/21 00:00
1. Introduction While commercialization and marketization are being rapidly carried out in public services, the labour union of the power generation sector has been on strike for more than four weeks against the government's privatization policy. The government proceeded to respond negatively to the strike, thus increasing social conflict. In this...
2002/08/24 00:00 2002/08/24 00:00
Starting with the slogan, 'the reform of using credit cards' Nowadays, about 100 million credit cards are being used in Korea. Credit cards, tools of financing activity, are embedded in our lives. The IRS can find income and other bases of taxation more easily by credit cards. The IRS can also levy more than before, and cards improve the transparen...
2002/07/08 00:00 2002/07/08 00:00
1. Background LOCOA continues the work of the Asia Committee for Peoples Organization (ACPO) which beginning in 1971 instituted community organization (CO) in several Asian countries. It was composed of three persons recommended by the Office of Human Development of the Asian Bishops and three by the Christian Conference fo...
2001/07/31 00:00 2001/07/31 00:00