Children in Bangladesh forced to work in toxic workplaces Children in Bangladesh forced to work in toxic workplacesPublished 28 October 2012 Over the last couple of decades, Bangladesh has integrated into the world economy as the one of the cheapest locations to set up factories. The poor working conditions in its garment factories and ship breaking yards are well known, but a rece

Members of the watchdog group Banollim and family members of Samsung semiconductor workers who contracted leukemia hold a protest outside of the headquarters of the Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service in Seoul’s Yeungdeungpo district, Oct. 16. The protestors are calling on the organization to recognize five new c

Electronics giant wins intense competition over 2011 while being named world’s third worst corporation By Kim Jin-cheol 　　　 There’s a fierce battle being waged in the global smartphone market, with the top spot changing by the quarter. According to figures from marke

Members of MBC’s union stage a sit-in protest to call for company president Kim Jae-chul’s resignation at the lobby of MBC headquarters in Seoul’s Yeouido, Jan. 9. The union has demanded management replace those in charge of reports and current affairs programs. In addition, journalists from

I had been less interested in films about the atomic bomb. Recently, I am interested in them again probably because the nuclear disaster in Fukushima overlaps with the bomb. “Barefoot Gen’s Hiroshima”, directed by ISHIDA Yuko, is a documentary film with a motif of a cartoon “Barefoot Gen” drawn by NAKAZAWA Keiji, which

In the afternoon of April 2, 2011, Shimahashi Michiko, mother of Shimahashi Nobuyuki who died of leukemia at the age of 29 as a result of radiation-exposed work, talked about the work in live stream broadcasting from the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center (CNIC). She referred to the terror of exposure by which it takes several years before radiation-related diseases appear, leukemia and his employer’s cove

A wave of demonstrations is planned at universities around Seoul this month and next» Dongguk University student body leaders perform 'three steps one bow.' (Photo by Shin So-young)By Lee Moon-young　　As tuition at local universities continues to increase, university students who oppose the tuition increases are planning t