Illegal Labor Union Stike - Pohang, South Korea

[RoyalDog214]

Korean's rioters:

Tired; Eager; Happy General is still alive.

[alexundersandu1]

fuck ufc :))

[sheepblitzer]

An "illegal" strike? as opposed to the legal kind where you keep working and don't demand anything...

[someman7]

South Korean riot police is nice. Unfortunately, that's why they get beat up alot.

In one video they burned them with imporvized flame throwers. At the end, nobody was arrested.

[ntoxicatedtigah]

ZERG RUSH!



[51Commandos]

two words: rubber bullets

[clambroth1923]

Shoot to kill

[reachforacreech]

guy at the end: I GOT YOUR SHIELD BIATCH!

[reachforacreech]

what group is this??

[reachforacreech]

long sticks are effective

[metalorixos]

Worker heroes. My class, my pride!

[francesgrunge]

by the way, they're not fire extinguishers... they are tear gas(lachrymator)..

[MrGrisnakh]

Of course they do riots.

Police with fire extinguishers.

Try greek police with firearm.

[stafili]

If this happened in America ALL the protesters would be shot down and killed by police gunfire

[fonetik4o8]

This aint happening in america because not too many people get shitted on, and the people that are dont have the power to do this. people are too content with their shopping malls and music

[SoloWing808]

hahaha Americans got all whiney and moany when anon took down PSN to protest Sony. If they're not even willing to give up their video games, there's no chance in hell they'd have the balls to risk their freedom and safety to do something like this. Sad but true.

[asiangangzter]

If i was a cop there, I'd beat the shit out of those protesters

[cabot2jville2010]

in north korea.  they'd all be shot.

[xxxKINGFROGxxx]

can anyone tell me the name of the protesters dressed in white?

[gerald10012000]

obviously these rioters didnt think this one threw oh well.

[aderandie2]

i could see the headlines now "korean riot police beaten back by brooms"

[xMaXiMuSx]

interesting that they know would never show anti-goverment protests where the US has useful goverments but where the US no longer lieks the goverments they usually orcehstrated the protests to topple useless regimes sort of like the arab countries..

[ilonagawel]

fuck police

[20sept2008]

me as a german proletarian can only show my respect of the proletariats of the world that are really struggling, such as the korean, the greek or the turks. comrades unite!

[vestavixmgs]

looks like koreans know how to fucking riot!

[kingmatesareany]

guys in white got a very very big balls....its good to see how random people have a fair fight with better armored cops. ussualy we see how cops brutaly beatin unarmored random people....respect, greet from slovakia

[lom68]

spartans forward!!

[Monrovia92]

There should be no such thing as an "illegal" labor union strike.

[tomanyasses]

@Monrovia92 thats part right like the guy who said to the police who was going to arrest him the cop said in name of the people i arrest you the guy said back to the cop i am the people

[Taheelur123]

@Monrovia92 Gathering to attack cops with large sticks seems pretty illegal to me.

[Monrovia92]

@Taheelur123 It depends on what they are attacking the cops for, sometimes you need to hit someone in the face with a stick. Peaceful protest means shit when the police force can legally beat you into submission, sometimes you need to use violence to defend yourself from those who wish to silence you.

[Schniddo]

@Taheelur123 Obviously that isn't the 'illegal' part. Why do you think the cops are there? They are there to break the strike, and that means by force. The law has denied these workers their democratic right to withdraw their labour. Democracy trumps oppressive laws.

[mulalicanes]

@Monrovia92 Well said.

[supatoker420]

holy shit, pretty gutsy of them too stay where they are when the riot cops start running towards them.

[laurentlacasse]

limage du future

[Woozi1]

Wow, 400 police back for some 30 tiny asians..

[deadlysaxmachine]

holy shit respect to the south corean workers from greece

[BudaTomu]

Korean Total War... LoL

[KRAZY7777]

fuck those riot police... i mean the civilians are treated so unfairly there.

[aekoriginal211924]

respect from greece

[Lucasimo]

F**K me - its a warzone!

UK protestors could learn to be better armed I reckon....

[zoginfo]

@Lucasimo

all protesters should be better armed just in case the police want to get rough like they always are, its time people fought back

the signs are clear as day



[Sandfurtz]

just burn the police

[truckdrivah]

Why didn't they shoot at the rioters?

[myway2727]

@truckdrivah It's not allowed to shot any gun in Korea.

[cyeh2]

@truckdrivah

Are you from China?

[sourhfire]

All my admiration to those brave Koreans!!

[bjarczyk]

Antifa

[15963455]

Pretty much everyone in the video had past military experience too. considering the draft of course

[lunaticodreamer]

police fascist

[simpy17325]

in a democracy the working class has the power, the power of numbers to elect who they want. the issue is that they do not use the power that was granted to them. I say vote them all out!

[1939FKSSTALMIELEC]

elegant behavior of dogs and a lot of gas and continue to fight CHWDP

[1939FKSSTALMIELEC]

eleganckie zachowanie duzo psów i gazu i walcza dalej CHWDP

[rml1950]

respect ... CHWDP

[ultrastal]

hehe jebać ZOMO.

[KoszalPL007]

ja pierdole, jak banda Darth vaderów wygladaja

[LGHO7]

acab lechia gdansk

[OdraOpole]

ACAB!

ODRA OPOLE POLAND!

[CHDZRDB]

Fuck da police!

ACAB in whole world!

[uksedat]

recpeckt for koreian ppls....and the police tooo....they know this is their naton....many countery police will just shoot thm...

[BurntPineapple]

And yet . . . .still people question police "brutallity". i say shoot the angry protestors. fuck them. they are asking for it. they see a lion in front of them with sharp teeth and they are trying to pull its mouth open.

[WithoutDistinction]

@BurntPineapple obviously you like getting fucked in the ass... there's a metaphor for you... but back to yours... what would you do if the lion was in front of you.. stand there and get eaten? I wouldn't say they are opening the mouth, I'd say they are using what little they can to fight him off.

[BurntPineapple]

@WithoutDistinction getting fucked in the ass? made me stop reading. no point. you're obviously not educated. bye.

[WithoutDistinction]

@BurntPineapple you know, "fucked in the ass" where one party gets pleasure and the other gets pain... do you like the way these people are treated, would you sit back and get "fucked in the ass" by the oppressive government that rules over South Korea??? you sound like you would, is all I'm saying.

[BurntPineapple]

@WithoutDistinction If you really think i would then i would suggest you rethink your whole way of interpretation my friend because obviously it is not up to par

[WithoutDistinction]

@BurntPineapple right.. "i say shoot the angry protestors. fuck them."..

[rocksaltcomando]

jeez... the rioters have axes or something on some of those sticks..

I have a friend who was there as a riot police. They are all young in their late teens & early 20s. He was 19 duing this riot. All South Korean guys have to serve 2 years in the military before they are 30 and most of the riot police are those guys. People who "hate" them keep that in mind please.

[emptiness018]

Retarded union uses force and those pigs need to be aressted

[adavalas]

Only one word . Respect

Greetings from Greece

[libertyandjustice]

Illegal Strike hahahaha

All a strike is is saying I don't want to work under your shitty conditions and I deserve more! How can you make that illegal.... douchery

[jurstie]

DO they just like to brawl cause if I was the riot police and they would attack me with steel sticks I would first fire rubber bullets. and if they don't stop just empty a mag of real bullets in the crowd. then they will stop charging. BUT it's fun to watch

[AntifaAustralia]

TRUE WORKERS' POWER! FUCK OFF CAPITALIST GOVERNMENT MERCENARY SLAVES: THe POLICE

[AFCAjax18]

fucking sick riot

[setnaffa]

It would be police brutality if they opened up with machine guns instead of pepper gas...

but the protestors brought bigger clubs than the police...

Let them try this in Nork Korea, Zimbabwe, China, or even Turkey...

[Shantou1]

@setnaffa or Thailand...

[jacobhakopa]

fuk the goverment good on u korea standing up for wats right respect

[wavesporter]

sagebot... We DID have the balls to do that here in North America, for example today is May Day, remembering the Haymarket Affair, when anarchist union organizers were hanged for their beliefs... the thing is, we had the balls, we faught the law, they hired goons, backed by the state militia, cracked our skulls, we did it again and again, won most of the rights you enjoy today.,. like the 8 hour work day.. and then once we could afford to be happy mindless consumers we stopped fighting...

[ljcshanksta]

asians always now how to have the best riots dont they

[nagasako7]

Poor 19 year old riot police v. Poor 19 year old workers

Something is wrong with this picture.

[Gam3rBoy]

for some reason i kind of like riots

[atosafi]

America's gonna go bankrupt, China's passing them both in military and economic ways.

Unfortunately though China has to keep giving USA money, especially during crisis, because the world would fall into chaos if America got shut down.

They'll never get their money back though, that's for sure :)

[SAGEBOT500]

China will go bankrupt the day after the US goes bankrupt, we're their biggest source of revenue.

[atosafi]

they're commies they aren't affected by crisis

[MASHDOTCOM]

@atosafi Actually US economy is still fairing pretty well, and it's still home to the most prolific WMDs in the world. And much of US deficit comes from intra government debts and private firms - 75%. China owns the share of about 25% of the remaining 25% of the deficit that US owe to foreign countries.

And it's less than a trillion dollars. Far less.

[Gam3rBoy]

@atosafi, military YES, ECONOMY..... uhhh maybe

[SAGEBOT500]

Hey look, another thing that Americans would never have the balls to do.

[greekvvedge]

You mean beat the shit out of 19 year old riot police doing their mandatory military service 10 on one? Yah, it's probably a good thing that Americans don't have the balls to do that.

[insomniac391]

American police dont play games, they will kill you, not dance around in a shield wall and let people riot.

[Bigfellr]

@insomniac391 fuk u cunt u dumb bitch

[insomniac391]

@Bigfellr - lol, thats how u do it!

[Kaos582]

@insomniac391 Well after the police here get pissed, we teach lessons with beating sticks.

Of course, after multiple warnings

[monfu2]

@SAGEBOT500 Maybe because americans currently don't have any big things to go this crazy about. But when they do..

[doglessliberal]

@monfu2 yeah, americans don't have any "big things" to riot about... because obviously 20%+ unemployment, worst healthcare among all industrialized and post-industrial nations, and corporate raiding of public wealth does not count at all.

lmao

[tomanyasses]

@SAGEBOT500 we dont need to

[almostlvl4]

@SAGEBOT500 we need to do this in america though..

[Blondmoo]

We live in scary times...its hard to prepare for the fact that this will most like happen in the US.

[CrazyForWoW]

I think they need to play more Warcraft 3 and Starcraft

[SethP666]

hahaah ;D

[r3pelle]

wow, We might have to do the same in Canada against Vale(Brazil)------taking our natural resources and trying to take everything away from the workers.

[sabu85]

proletarians vs proletarians!

[motonegros]

Now thats a fucking STRIKE!

[jakartahutanbeton]

ALL COPS ARE BASTARD !!!

[ActiveStorage]

the one with the longest metal pole wins

[xxxtwofacexxx]

THISS IS SPARTAAAAAAA !!!

[suzuki00sang]

u r soooooo funny ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ­ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 존나 웃기네 이새끼가 하는말 ㅎㅎㅎ

[AllesOnderControle]

The Spartans of Asia.

[MrFloetzel]

lol fire extinguishers... poor coppers..

thats how it is supposed to be. Police fears the People. Great Video.

Fight on

[1kr]

looks like the police need longer poking sticks then just shields.

[gyrobotZ]

They need guns!

[dongwu23]

poor police.. they can't use gun all they know is protect themself..

[OGsid]

Damn thats alot of cops! The whole city must have smelt of pork that day.

[neukyt]

nice work

[sketchy1919]

"i`ll rather die on my feets than live on my knees" antifa,antifacist

[jrisawesome11]

i love the tactics of the police with there random rish

[prjctcivilian]

workers of the world unite

[RPK74m]

You have won a Free one way trip to North Korea, Comrade

[prjctcivilian]

im not a moaist nor a stalinist

[npcoombs]

Well done to Korean protestors. Shows they have much more balls than their Western counterparts nowadays.

[TrueCommunist]

Its nice that they only show this prelude to the strike. Its so convenient that we don't see real action of the police. Rubber bullets, tear gas sprays, ambulances carrying dead and wounded...

This is just tip of the ice berg.

[Okhlopkov]

Ah yes.. South Korean democracy hard at work.

[adentheblack]

Well on um the use of the long poles did the trick lol . only if people in Britain where more like that instead of being pushed a round by a money wasting government know as the labour party Down with Labour

[liudandd]

My day! the ~ South Korea is really terrorist

[gunthaarz]

"illegal" strike?

we _have_ to wage slave for the masters??? says who???

how can _any_ strike be illegal? If I dont want to work for your money then fuck you buddy! I wont work.

[mothaphukkas]

Because in Korea you have to ask permission to protest. If you don't have permission, it is illegal. Kind of defeats the purpose.

[UndeadShaggyDoo]

isnt it the same in every country

to ask permission?

[sheepblitzer]

same thing in the USA actually.

you need permits to protest. most mainstream protesters actually abide this this bullshit too, hence they never accomplish anything

[unnst]

instant favorite. I love how the police back off fast.

[UndeadShaggyDoo]

at 2:05 one cop gets fucked up!! even by his own shield

[hommageakerouac]

Fight capitalism! Long live communism!

[kyunlee]

yes the people one the battle but not the war..

[sharqule]

ey yo what u know about ma country man?

[VoiceOFnatioN]

the south korean goverment have hard time trying to protect capitalism...

if there wasn't 40 000 american soldiers in korea south and north korea would be 1 big communist state

[Arbetarpolitik]

Stupid fucker!

The north korean dictatorship is no better (probably a lot worse) than the south. The working class gets fucked up in both countries!

The only solution for North and South Korea (as well as every other nation) is REAL and direct working class power, not the power of a fucking fake "communist" party.

[MarxBakuninMe]

Yeah, yeah, you're right.

[reljin2]

Anarcho-capitalism

[MarxBakuninMe]

No, collectivist anarchism. "ANARCHO-CAPITALISM" is not capitalism because A.) it means to privatise rather than abolish the state, B.) capitalism needs a state to exist (thusly it is a contradiction in terms).

[PlebScrubber]

@Arbetarpolitik Democracy dosnt work everywhere...

[Shantou1]

@PlebScrubber

and where does it work?

[bengalen99]

@Arbetarpolitik You are so right comrade, the North Korean fake communism is the same shit as the south's capitalist politics. The only soloution is a unification of the north and south, then a REAL socialist government!

[hex99jojo]

This is the Dynamic Korea.

[DoktorCp]

They should rush into eachother. Not back off..

[dutchtrader]

Ultimately, this has nothing to do with a free market society, this has everything to do with HUMAN RIGHTS! Sheees!

[Internationalen]

Favourited. This is a good example of how the governent struggles to protect capitalism.

[dutchtrader]

There is a big difference between las say fair capitalism and corporate capitalism. The Korean people got screwed by corporate capitalism the same way the American people are. Hopefully we will see the American people rise up and throw off the chains of their oppressors.

[BebopBHunter]

One problem. Americans use guns and more dangerous weapons. People have rised and get rained down with thick bullets. It hurts and officers in america don't let you get near them by like 10metres.

[Rhenoism]

I hope the South Koreans are smart enough to trash the new FTA with the US of A. What a shaft deal for the Koreans. Maybe if the US elite and middle class would actually allow the real working class laborers to be paid a decent salary, US capitalists wouldn't need to scour the globe looking for customers it can sell its shit to. The US laborers would finally have the money to buy the shit they actually produce, so there would be no need for FTAs. But NOPE.

[Rhenoism]

How does one from the USA finally, finally escape the lie of democracy by going to a place and becoming a communist?

Communism works if the people want it to. But they have to want it to work.

[Rhenoism]

Thank you, Howard Zinn, for showing me in your history books how the real world works.

This protest reminds me of the protests in Boliva back in like 2001 or so. Some US capitalist endeavor tried to force the people in Bolivia's capital city to pay for water, including rainwater they got simply from leaving containers in the rain. The government actually put up a fight for a day, but the people eventually DID win. Imagine being "forced" to pay 25% of your income for rainwater. Fuck capitalism

[Rhenoism]

Designated losers in all the western societies will continue to be nothing but losers. They will be forced to accept low wages, work in dangerous conditions, and be politically invisible, and thus ensuring they can't get relief from exploitation through legislation. They prop up the middle class and the upper class, after all.

Such is the role of the designated loser.

[Rhenoism]

Middle class in the US has become wealthy, and now wants to keep its wealth. Its members have climbed the ladder to wild success that it prevents others from climbing now. Middle class business owners outsource labor and dodge employment laws and even bring in immigrants who work illegally. Those in the middle class who don't own businesses invest in portfolios and do no real work. They expect others to take the capitalist risks they themselves refuse to take.

[Rhenoism]

Looks like South Korea has figured out that a designated loser class is important if some, the designated winners, are to live a life of Reiley. Simply rig the society so the losers are politically neutered and meet with great (often violent) resistance if they rise up against their masters.

The South Koreans have obviously learned from the US, a country whose elites are protected by the middle class. As the middle class clings to its economic gains, it pulls up the ladder its members climbed

[duncan36]

The anti-union authorities said the same thing in this country. Unions = communism. Its a lie, the right to organize is populism of the highest order. Banning a strike is authoritarian aggression.

[Rhenoism]

In the US, the elite rulers have established a sort of "guard dog" class that protects them. The elites ensure those in this class are "winners". Of course, there is the flip side. To guarantee the winners win, the elites must see to it that there is a designated loser class as well. The designated losers are forced to lose so the guard dog class will win, be happy, and uphold the status quo. When the designated losers revolt, the jackboot pushes down on their collective temple. Looks like this.

[10gkrsusdlek]

Zhexuan

no police killed a gril in the protesting yesterday

Zhexuan, if you are gonna write some shit like that you should change your account and then write it

your ID tells us that you are Chinese

[10gkrsusdlek]

Zhexuan83

제발 자삭해주세요

한국 망신 시키지 말고

시대가 어느땐데 경찰이 사람죽였다그러면

외국 사람들이

"그 경찰 나쁜 시키네" 그러겠습니까?

한국놈들 미쳤다그러면서 ㅈㄹ 하져

한국 망신시키지말고

외국에 나가있는 유학생들 오해받지않게

자삭해라

[Zhexuan83]

Do you know that the south korea riot police killed a girl last night in cold blood (strangling)?? it was in Sichon (Seoul), everyone is commenting this in the forums

and she was NOT even a violent protestor!!!!!!!

[10gkrsusdlek]

한국 경찰 욕하려면 한국사람한테 실컨해 ㅄ아 외국놈들한테 한국사람욕을 왜하냐? 너 짱깨냐? 짱꼴라야? 한국에서 경찰이 사람 죽인게 자랑스러워? 그렇게 자랑스러워서 유투브에 영어로 쓰고 싶습니까? 정말 죽였단 증거도 없고 정말 죽었어도 나같으면 이런식으로 한국망신 안시킨다 촛불집회 무서워서 나가지도 안을 놈이 한국경찰이 사람죽인게 자랑스러워서 좋겠습니다 ㅉㅉㅉ

[ormannay]

She had a concussion but survived, get your facts right.

[Zhexuan83]

you are right, I've said too much with too little information on my part, mianhe...

[10gkrsusdlek]

that's not true because in korea the police can't hit the riots even if the riots become aggresive

they can only defend themselves

they are supposed to just dismiss the riot, no hiting is allowed

[bcgood]

I'm thinking of teaching English in South Korea. I am from Sacramento, California. Is it dangerous to live in South Korea or is this just an isolated incident?

[djtohkee]

isolated incident? but the ban lift of US beef might spark another riot on a smaller scale.

@by2004, u know if anyone tried this in the US they would be shot under "officer safety" so not i don't thinkg koreans are good at riots

[a6km]

Yes everywhere in the world it is very very dangerous and very very scary

[bcgood]

I disagree, I've been all over the world and most people are very cool. Maybe you need to change the way you view the world?

[slee1488]

Moronao I would like to see you running up there towards the riot and see if you can handle them. You dumb fuck

[Tofuhunk]

You wanna say that shit again?

Korean Cops aint pussies.

Its tactics dumb shit i dont think you want to just charge in and get beat up in there?

Your a stupid moron i dont know why dumbasses like you are still living... moronnao5 thats what you are a dumbass moron...

Why dont go say it to their face. The cops have to go through military training rougher than the US marine boot camp an a special forces training.

Go tell them what you just said i wanna see your ass get beat up...

[zwickau2008]

not only police but also south " military"??

[by2004]

you gotta hand it to the koreans - one thing they're good at: riots!

[minipip]

it's så freakin cool to see this! South Koreas militant unions are an example for the labour movment world wide.

[beijingtrustmee]

korean are really racism.sick

[crazychasinator]

niiiiiiiice

[Johnkim510]

i thought i was watching braveheart. wheres mell gibson?

[NWM11Bravo]

that looks fun!

[5mutpolice]

police r there becuz they r told to. no1 pays rioters to fight so they obviously have more will.

[destroyah]

how many policemen were these???

and how many roiters???

and the police had to back up......