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[Lee Kyong-hee] The plight of seamstresses, bakers and migrant farm workersViewpointsMay 26, 2022“Sewing Sisters,” a full-length documentary released this year, transports viewers to Seoul Peace Market in the 1970s. It unmasks the fate of garment workers galvanized by a suicide-protest against their harsh working conditions. And, when layered over what we see today, it illuminates how much has not changed, despite the new president’s claim that structural gender inequality no longer exists in this country. Chun Tae-il was one of thousands of workers in a hive of sweatshop
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[Kim Seong-kon] When suspicion becomes procedureViewpointsMay 25, 2022As the new government has launched, the season of National Assembly hearings for Cabinet members has come again. As expected, controversial issues such as plagiarism, aggressive real estate investment and income sources are at the forefront of the discussion. The most contentious issue is what Koreans call “parent chance,” which refers to advantages that children receive from parents in influential positions in society. In many other countries, it is only natural for parents to hel
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[Doyle McManus] India has become a US partner in countering China — a limited partner, that isViewpointsMay 25, 2022For more than two decades, American presidents have invested high hopes in a deepening US relationship with India. And at first glance, India looks like a natural US ally, not only an electoral democracy but a rapidly growing economy that fears the expanding power of China. Last year, President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met in Washington and declared a “global strategic partnership” -- not quite a formal alliance, but the next best thing. Then Russia invade