Tag: protesters

US and ROK military forces need live fire training to maintain readiness and there is no where in Korea to do this as well as Rodriguez Range.  I look at this as I would an airport.  People need airports just like the military needs a live fire range.  Should airports be closed as well because of noise and the remote chance of a crash?  How come I have the feeling this has a lot to do with money?

A united group of villagers set fire to bundles of straw near the U.S. military firing range in Pocheon on Wednesday in protest against stray bullets from the range.

The Rodriguez Live Fire Complex, about 24 kilometers south of the tensely-guarded demilitarized zone, has been a source of grievances to the residents of neighboring towns following a series of ricochets that have come out of the firing range and landed on residential areas.

Most recently in October, a 105-millimeter anti-tank shell flew from the shooting range before ricocheting off a house in a neighborhood and landed on a farm.

Earlier that month, a practice projectile was found in a pine field following three similar cases of ricochets in proceeding months.

“Day and night, the sounds of firing never cease in Pocheon, the home to dozens of military bases, camps, a military airfield, ammunition dumps and the Eighth U.S. Army’s Youngpyoung (Rodriguez) firing range as well as the South Korean Army’s ranges,” the villagers’ committee on the ricochet issue said in protest.

The residents near the range started to desert their hometown in fear of stray bullets, they claimed in the protest rally near the U.S. military range.  [Korea Herald]

You can read the rest at the link.

Stalwarts of the Seoul protest scene: conservative older folks who hate left-wingers, NK leaders and sexual freedom. pic.twitter.com/FRIc8IXeVn

— Alastair Gale (@AlastairGale) October 27, 2015

A group of university students protests in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 29, 2015, demanding that Japan make a sincere apology for its wartime crimes during its 1910-45 colonial rule over Korea. The pickets say “Japan, a war criminal state, should apologize before history.” (Yonhap)

I wonder if these same protesters will go protest in front of the Chinese embassy as well and demand an apology for war crimes committed against Korea by the government responsible for it still in power to this day?

A member of the Solidarity for the Peace and Reunification of Korea, a progressive civic group, speaks during a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 16, 2015, to voice her objection to Japan exercising the right to collective self-defense. Japan’s ruling coalition pushed controversial security bills through the lower house that would allow it to exercise that right the same day. (Yonhap)

140 Samsung unit workers arrested after protesting merger http://t.co/bpoSsk59G4 #Samsung #Hanhwa #Techwin pic.twitter.com/Y43YVWJjk4

— The Korea Observer (@koreaobserver) June 29, 2015

Members of South Korea’s two umbrella trade unions rally over minimum wages in front of the government complex in Seoul on June 4, 2015. The unions are demanding that the government raise the per-hour minimum wage from 5,580 won (US$5.01) to 10,000 won. (Yonhap)

Members of civic groups stage a protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on May 29, 2015, after U.S. Forces Korea said the previous day that a live anthrax sample that was accidentally sent to the U.S. Osan Air Base in the city of Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, has been destroyed. (Yonhap)

Members of an anti-nuclear civic group shout slogans during a rally in front of the Nuclear Safety Commission, South Korea’s nuclear watchdog, in Seoul, on May 12, 2015, to demand that the commission close nuclear reactors. (Yonhap)

Members of civic groups tear a banner with a printed image of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s face during a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on April 28, 2015, to demand Abe offer an unequivocal apology over Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement of Korean and other Asian women. (Yonhap)

Members of civic groups stage a rally in front of the defense ministry in Seoul on April 10, 2015, to voice their objection to the possible deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea and the establishment of an integrated air and missile-defense system among the United States, South Korea and Japan to deter North Korea’s evolving security threats. (Yonhap)