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South Korea: A model for dealing with COVID-19?
South Korea has relied on testing and tracking instead of lockdowns
Franz Neuhold (ISA Austria)
Almost no government has reacted in time, and with a clearly focused strategy for managing the COVID-19 crisis. Only one, South Korea, appears to have ac...
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South Korea: ‘Strong man’s daughter’, Park, sworn in as president
But Park Geun-hye’s right-wing agenda will face mounting mass resistance
CWI reporters in South Korea
On 25 February, Park Geun-hye of the right-wing Saenuri (New Frontier) party, and daughter of assassinated military dictator Park Chung-hee, w...
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South Korea: Hyundai boss worth $6.2bn while workers struggle for basic wage
Campaign for permanent contracts continues
Kim Changwoo, CWI Seoul
For the last fours years, non-regular workers at a Hyundai Motors factory in Ulsan, South Korea have been taking recurring strike action and organising protests to become regula...
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Hiroshima G7 ramps up US-China Cold War
The Group of Seven (G7) major Western capitalist economies met in Japan on 19-21 May
As expected these governments used this opportunity to ramp u...
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