Tag: protests

Picture of the Day: Haenyeo Protest

Haenyeo's rally
Haenyeo’s rally
“Haenyeo” female divers, who make their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor without breathing equipment, stage a rally in front of Ssangyong Construction Co.’s headquarters in Seoul on June 29, 2026, to seek compensation from the builder for damage in their fishing ground off the southeastern port city of Pohang, caused by a port maintenance project. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Who Funds this Group?

Civic group opposes military logistics pact with Japan
Civic group opposes military logistics pact with Japan
A civic group, dubbed Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea, holds a press conference in front of Seoul’s defense ministry opposing a military logistics support pact with Japan on June 28, 2026. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Korean Election Protesters Wave U.S. Flags

Protesters over ballot shortage
Protesters over ballot shortageP
rotesters shout slogans as they continue to stage a rally in front of the SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium, used as a vote-counting facility, in Seoul’s Songpa Ward on June 17, 2026, over an unprecedented shortage of ballot papers that disrupted voting in the June 3 local elections at 26 polling stations. (Yonhap)

Tweet of the Day: Students Protest Ballot Shortage

https://twitter.com/ViiV_333/status/2064273797314646470

Protests Grow in Seoul Over Paper Ballot Shortages; Demand Reelection

How do you not print enough ballots for an election? Screwing up something as basic like this is what causes people to question the legitimacy of elections. If something like this would have happened during the Park Geun-hye administration what would the Korean left have done in response?:

Protests over ballot shortages entered their second day Saturday, with thousands encircling a vote-counting facility in eastern Seoul and demanding a new election.

By 12:35 p.m., approximately 2,000 people had gathered around SK Olympic Handball Gymnasium in Songpa Ward, according to police, claiming Wednesday’s local elections were fraudulent.

Protesters blocked entrances, trapping an estimated 20-30 officials inside. About 400 police officers were deployed to the scene. No clashes have been reported.

The unrest stemmed from the shortage of ballot paper at more than a dozen polling stations across Seoul on Wednesday, including in Songpa and Gangnam, forcing temporary voting suspensions. Some voters are believed to have left without casting their ballots.

Authorities managed to move the ballot boxes to the gymnasium Friday morning. Since then, protestors have surrounded the facility, preventing officials from removing the boxes or leaving the site.

Yonhap

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Tweet of the Day: Korean Anti-Mosque Protesters

Picture of the Day: Protest Tent Set Up in Front of Samsung Chairman’s Home in Yongsan

Samsung labor union's tent in front of chairman's home
Samsung labor union’s tent in front of chairman’s home
A sit-in protest tent of Samsung Electronics Co.’s labor union is installed in front of Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s home in Yongsan district in central Seoul on April 30, 2026. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: KCTU Protests Iran War

Anti-war rally
Anti-war rally
Portraits for victims of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran are laid out as protestors from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions stage a rally in front of the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on March 25, 2026 to express their objection to the war with Iran and South Korea’s dispatch of troops to the conflict. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Anti-Trump Protest in Seoul

Anti-U.S. rally
Anti-U.S. rally
A protestor wearing a mask of U.S. President Donald Trump takes part in an anti-Trump rally organized by an alliance of civic groups in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on March 16, 2026, after Trump demanded in a social media post that other nations, including South Korea, deploy warships to the Strait of Hormuz to secure oil shipments. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Anti-Trump Protest in Seoul

Anti-U.S. rally
Anti-U.S. rally
Protestors wearing masks of U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Vice President JD Vance take part in an anti-Trump rally organized by an alliance of civic groups in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Jan. 27, 2026, after Trump said he’s raising “reciprocal” tariffs and auto duties on South Korea to 25 percent from 15 percent as he argued the Asian ally’s legislature has not yet completed a domestic process to implement a bilateral trade deal. (Yonhap)