[Jeju Update] The Sun rose again on the first day of a new year in the Jeju Island

The workers in the Jeju Island have been taking a tent vigil to demand their basic labor rights in front of the Island hall since Nov. 23. They included those from the bus transportation company, Apartment management, medical institute, and Island provincial dance institute. The dancers were in charge of the tent vigil on the first day of a new year.

A dancer made a snowman wearing a sign that says, ‘abolish unjust lay-off.’The chairman of their small union-seven members-was laid off during the struggle in which the dancers have demanded the resignation of the institute’s president who have performed arbitrary management against the dancers’ collected democratic opinions.

The dancers were doing the tent vigil since June, 2010 and gathered their struggle into the Pan-Island workers’ struggle in a tent vigil since Nov. 23. Two children of a woman dancer have also visited the tent.

The five small baby snowmen were New Year’s gift for them from a worker.
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Otherwise, some photos from the Joongduk coast on the first day of a new year. It is told that the navy is planning to work on the fattening sea bottom before the construction of sea wall this month. If the construction is enforced according to their plan, this pristine landscape cannot be seen any more. However people’s struggle to save the Island of Peace will never be faded. Rather it will grow bigger in the New Year.