Monthly Archives: July 2012
Human Rights Commissioner’s lie “I did not cut electricity and heating and cause a protester’s death”
Disclaimer: The following is a totally unauthoritative personal translation of an article appeared in Hankyoreh on Jul. 17, 2012, reporting the confirmation hearing of Korea National Human Rights Commission commissioner candidate Byeong-cheol Hyun, the incumbent commissioner who is accused of vegetating KNHRC by all human rights organizations and his own subordinates and independent human rights […]
12-year imprisonment on former Inhwa School employee for sexual violence on disabled minor
Disclaimer: The following is a totally unauthoritative personal translation of an article released by a news agency NEWSis on Jul. 5, 2012, reporting the 12-year imprisonment sentence to a former Inhwa school administration office chief who sexually violated a hearing impaired girl student and ruthlessly assaulted an eyewitness to cover up his crime. With this, […]
“Jan. 20, 2009 is repeating, again and again and again” … Story of Two Doors
Disclaimer: The following is a totally unauthoritative personal translation of an article appeared in SisaIN Live on Jun. 26, 2012, reporting an interview with directors of documentary film <Two Doors 두 개의 문> that deals with the Yongsan disaster. In Jan.20, 2009, a big fire broke out at the top of a building in a […]
“So fell someone’s love, at the semiconductor factory”
Disclaimer: The following is a totally unauthoritative personal translation of an article appeared in SisaIN Live on May 17, 2012, reporting two comic books on stories of families who lost some of their sons or daughters that had worked at Samsung Electronics semiconductor factories. Although the deaths of Samsung Electronics semiconductor factory workers and Samsung […]
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