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10th International Conference of NHRIs on “Business and Human Rights”:...

10 October 2010 Human rights institutions from around the world have called for action on corporate abuse of human rights to be stepped up. Representatives from around 80 countries attending the 10th...

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Hyundai Motor in Great Dispute with Labor Union

The Hyundai Motor Company had to face a lot of startling occurrences and criticism very recently. This past Sunday on the 8th of January, the employee and labor union member Mr. Shin attempted...

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Hyundai Motor still in Denial of Self-immolation Incident?

A Hyundai Motor Company worker and labor union member Mr. Shin has passed away due to the consequences of his attempted self-immolation in one of the engine plants of Hyundai in Ulsan, South Korea....

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A Solution is Obvious for SsangYong Lay-off

June 2012 is important for victims of the Ssangyoung incident. Three years has passed since employees from Ssangyong have protested against the company’s lay-off in 2009. Ssangyong, one of the top ten...

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Two Doors (2011): Yongsan Tragedy Revisited

Two Doors, an independent documentary on the Yongsan Tragedy of January 2009 (read the HRM’s previous article on Yongsan Tragedy), made a huge hit in the theaters. Given the fact that it is an...

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Numerous Paper Cranes Call for the Resignation of Hyeon Byeong Cheol

Dozens of paper cranes were attached on a signboard in front of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK). Various human rights organizations in Korea ‘craned’ to hear the news on the...

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Yongsan Tragedy: Protestors Pardoned

On the last day of January, four years since the accident, five residents evicted from Yongsan were given a special pardon by the South Korean president. The five evicted residents were those who were...

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Buddhist groups protest against National Intelligence Service

Buddhists and women protest against National Intelligence Service     The Buddhist associations and women’s organizations joined a protest rally against the National Intelligence Service for...

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April Comfort Women Korea-Japan Negotiations, Possibly Last Hope of Resolving...

On April 16th, in order to discuss the controversial issue of the Korean women made “Comfort Women “during the Japanese Occupation, a meeting between the directors of the Korean and Japanese Ministries...

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Hyung Je Bok-ji-won (Brother Welfare Facility): South Korea’s Auschwitz...

A panorama of Hyung Je Bok-ji won (source: media today) Hyung Je Bok-ji-won (lit. "Brother Welfare facility") was a welfare facility that operated in Busan, South Korea from 1975 to 1986. The facility...

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