South Korea's state-owned railway operator, Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL), has laid off an unprecedented number of more than 7,600 workers [ko] within a week as it decided to set up a subsidiary for new high-speed train operations, which critics call ‘a prelude to privatization of the nation's rail system’. Inspired by a student at Korea University in Seoul who posted on his school's offline bulletin board a message– a longtime symbol/traditional way of voicing students’ dissent– criticizing the government's such decision, many universities have started posting similar messages on their respective school bulletin boards. A Facebook page entitled ‘안녕들하십니까?‘ [ko] (formal way of saying ‘how are you?’ in Korean) was set up to share images of messages posted across various universities’ bulletin boards. In less than two days, the page has already received more than 41 thousand likes.
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That “how are you?” voices of students in Korea are not only about the railroads privatization, but about the overall of society that make citizens very uncomfortable by, for example, the illegal winning presidential election, the control mass media by government, and retrogression of democracy.
Right ! here is more article about that. http://storify.com/wjsfree/how-are-you-hand-written-posters-spread-like-wild
Thanks. It was a short post merely introducing the poster and actually, I am currently writing a long explainer on this. Will publish it soon.
wow! BBC reported the “How are you all doing? movement” and mentioned you like this “US-based journalist Lee Yoo Eun”, Congratulations!. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25450218
Thank you Jae Hee. If you are interested, here is my new post on this movement. http://bit.ly/1dqS4MW
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