WORLD WORLDWIDE SOUTH KOREA News Journal Update - (en) A.N.A.: South Korea, Seoul, Call for Solidarity with Malanquism (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Dear Comrades: ---- We are the group of anarchists on the Korean peninsula

working under the name "Our Mutual Aid: Malanquism". Currently, we at "Our Mutual
Help: Malanquism" are working with the Tourism and Leisure Industries Union of
the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, Hotel Sejong branch, for the reversal
of the unfair dismissals of hotel workers. Given the situations that we will
expose punctually, we require your help and that of as many comrades as we can
reach. ---- 1. Hotel Sejong, located in downtown Seoul, is a 4-star hotel that,
under its founding director Joo Meyong-Geon, since 2011, has become accustomed to
the exploitation of local workers.
2. In 2011, Joo Myeong-Geon introduced a company-dominated union, with the
purpose of replacing the existing single workers' union. The single union lost
the majority, and under the agreement between the company union and the company
itself, labor exploitations began.

2.1. In 2012, the company and its union decided to freeze and reduce wages for 9
years. Some workers lost up to 40% of their wages in the process.

2.2. In the same year, to increase the hotel's profit, Joo Myeong-Geon fired 251
workers out of the 290 that there were at the time.

3. In December 2021, the director dismissed 15 more workers, replacing them with
irregular contractors.

3.1. The workers thus dismissed started protests for the reversal of unfair
dismissals, a protest in which "Our Mutual Help: Malanquism" has participated
since then.

4. On December 23, 2022, one of our comrades stayed with his friends at the hotel
with the aim of giving news to the locality.

4.1. For this occasion, the hotel, having disposed of most of its workers, had
stopped offering room and breakfast services to its guests.

4.2. The dismissed union members, in the form of protest, offered breakfast to
the guests in the street in front of the hotel.

4.3. Our comrade and his friends, informed of this fact, decided to distribute
leaflets to the guests of the same Hotel Sejong, inviting them to join the free
breakfast prepared by the union, in the hotel.

5. On March 2, the same comrade was informed, through a telephone call with the
police, that the hotel had sued him with the charge of breaking and entering.

5.1. In addition, having reviewed the complaint, we discovered that the hotel,
through five surveillance cameras installed in front of the location, had been
illegally collecting information about our participation in the protests carried
out every week in that same place.

5.2. The hotel not only denounced our comrade, but also the branch director of
the union for having conspired in this "plot" against their company, despite the
fact that the unionist was not involved in the simple distribution of leaflets.

Although we tried to summarize the facts as concisely as possible, we couldn't
finish the almost endless list of fouls committed by Joo Myeong-Geon and his
managers. However, we hope that we still made Joo Myeong-Geon's evil obsession
evident in his reprehensible pursuit of power and profit. The absurd nature of
the demand is clear. The hotel waited more than two months to make its complaint,
demanding that those who paid for fair accommodation, whose only crime - if any -
would have been that of having marginally benefited the unionist protest,
organized solely to accuse the actions of the same hotel . And to know that Joo
Myeong-Geon and his lawyers used this occasion to sue the union's branch
director, who, again, we clarify, was not involved in the leaflet distribution!

Even with the impact of this legal mess that Joo Myeong-Geon and his team of
hypocritical lawyers have dragged us into, "Our Mutual Aid: Malanquism" will not
cease in its fight against the State and Capital. Without changing plans, we will
participate in the protest for the reversal of unfair dismissals, this Thursday,
March 16th. And that same day at 1 pm, Korean time, we will have a press
conference where we will present the facts that we explained earlier.

We therefore request a show of solidarity from respectable Hispanic comrades with
our struggle against Director Joo and the vile hotel managers. Transmission of
photos of those who wish to show solidarity with us or even a simple written
statement of solidarity will be of great help to our hearts, especially for those
who have been sued by the hotel.

About the logistical details. In case you can send us either photos or signed
declarations - and even both -, we inform you that we can translate both English
and Spanish into Korean and share it not only with other comrades in Malanquism,
but also with comrades in the Industry Union of Tourism and Leisure, Hotel Sejong
branch. However, although we are not restricted by language, we are pressed for
time, as the conference will be on Thursday afternoon, so if you can send us
letters, we would greatly appreciate it if you could send them to the no later
than Tuesday &agr ave; night UTC'6, so that we can also translate the texts.

With all of the above, we wish to end this letter.

Thanks in advance, and solidarity in all your present and future struggles.

To fight without ceasing.

Our Mutual Aid: Malanquism.

malangkism.tistory.com

Translation > Sun of April

anarchist-ana news agency

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