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  2. Women factory workers in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    Women Factory Workers in South Korea In the late 1920s, it was the time when women entered the manufacturing industries and factories. [1] In Korea, we call factory women workers as Yo Gong (여공) which letters came from a Chinese character (女工). Specifically, "yo" means (女 female) and "gong" means (工 work). Most of the South Korean ...

  3. Women in unions in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    Women in Asia have been organizing to address workplace issues, such as unequal pay and workplace violence as early as the 1880s. [1] The formation of women's labor unions in South Korea began in the late 1970s with the Minjung movement, as it is based on the mobilization of young female factory workers and martial law suspended labor rights. [2]

  4. Jeon Tae-il - Wikipedia

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    Jeon Tae-il (Korean: 전태일; 28 September 1948 – 13 November 1970) was a South Korean sewing worker and workers' rights activist who committed suicide by self-immolation at the age of 22 in protest of the poor working conditions of South Korean factories during the Third Republic era. [1]

  5. Blaze in South Korea battery plant kills 22 workers - AOL

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    HWASEONG, South Korea (Reuters) -Multiple powerful explosions set a lithium battery factory on fire in South Korea on Monday, killing 22 workers, most of them Chinese nationals, as it burned out ...

  6. An industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable ...

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    An industrial robot grabbed and crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigated whether the machine was defective or improperly ...

  7. A fire at a lithium battery factory in South Korea kills 22 ...

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    A fire likely sparked by exploding lithium batteries swept through a manufacturing factory near South Korea’s capital on Monday, killing 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers and injuring eight ...

  8. Paris Baguette - Wikipedia

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    Paris Baguette (French pronunciation: [paʁi baɡɛt]; Korean: 파리바게뜨; RR: Paribagetteu) or Paris Croissant (Korean: 파리크라상; RR: Parikeurasang), is a South Korean multinational chain of bakery-cafés, owned by the SPC Group and headquartered in Seoul. In 1986, it was established as a subsidiary of Shani Co., Ltd., and opened ...

  9. Nike sweatshops - Wikipedia

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    Nike, Inc. has been accused of using sweatshops and worker abuse to produce footwear and apparel in East Asia. After rising prices and the increasing cost of labor in Korean and Taiwanese factories, Nike began contracting in countries elsewhere in Asia, which includes parts of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia.

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