Corruptness of South Korean Society

Corruptness of South Korean Society

South Korea is a mammonish society where money and power are almighty, a society where the law of the jungle prevails, and a decadent society where all sorts of crimes such as swindle and fraud, killing and robbery, and human traffic are rampant.

- Uninterrupted Crimes

In 2008 1,966,000 cases of different crimes were committed in south Korea, 7.6% more than that of the previous year.

In 2008 the murder increased by 5.6%, robbery by 8.3%, sex violence by 4.1%, assault and other crimes of violence by 32.7%, and in particular the number of the young criminals of violence by 15.4% in comparison with 2007.

More than 1.54 million cases of living-related crimes occurred in 2008, among which the larcenies increased by 11.3% and the fraud and criminal negligence by more than 30% as compared with that of 2007.

In 2008 49,631 cases of arson were committed (3.7% more than 47,882 cases of 2007).

81.2% of them were deliberate crimes and arsons by young people increased by 65.5%.

- Employment Crisis

At present the completely unemployed are 3.77 million and 5,200 jobs are reduced every day. Jobless people will increase more than those in the period of the financial crisis in 1997 owing to the mass dismissal by the business “restructuring”.

Now in south Korea one fourth of the population are unemployed or underemployed.

2.6 million families have householders with no job and even the employed are suffering from the phobia about unemployment.

Owing to the anti-people policy of the treacherous Lee Myung-bak regime, deteriorating economy and rampant social ills, the people's living fall into misery more and more and various crimes prevail.

This is the reality of south Korea today.

To ten million workers

To ten million workers

Dear ten million south Korean workers!

Now south Korea is indignant over the south Korean authorities and the vicious conglomerate that forced death to Park Jong-tae, a head of Gwangju branch of transportation solidarity headquarter under the Korean Confederation of Trade Union.

He, unable to bear the inhumane measure and suppression of the trade union by the Daehan Tongun that in league with the Lee Myung-bak regime, closed his life on May 3.

His sorrowful death was a murder produced by the present regime and the vicious conglomerate that seriously violates the rights and liberty of the working class and a tragedy of an abnormal reality of south Korea.

Lee, who had advocated “the economy for the people” and “stable employment”, threw away his commitments after he took presidency and stimulated avarice and arbitrariness of the handful conglomerate and the privileged class with policy favorable for them, while ignoring the lives of the working people.

The Kumho group and its underling Daehan Tonghun totally cancelled a raise of transportation fee 30 won agreed with the part-workers and dismissed 78 workers demanding the agreement; moreover, they ruthlessly suppressed them by mobilizing the riot police.

Demanding the higher wages cannot be a guilt and target of suppression.

Park sacrificed his life to indict the abnormal reality of south Korea where the haves violate the haves-not, power and money is rampant and injustice prevails over justice.

The Lee regime, instead of apologizing the crime, impeded his funeral ceremony.

The working masses would suffer misfortune and disaster as long as the Lee regime’s policy against the workers and suppression remain intact.

The Lee regime’s policies against the workers and people are more pronounced as it drove the ten million workers to precipice of death.

Now the Lee clique and the ruling Grand National Party made the millions of workers jobless and tries to fabricate murderous labor law that allows the handful capitalist class to dismiss the workers, cut wages and violate the rights of work at random.

Backed by the Lee clique, the conglomerates dismissed millions of workers under the signboard of the economic debacle by launching “restructuring” and “lay offs”. Consequently, the streets are full of jobless people; family discord and suicide are frequent.

The south Korean workers are on the crossroads of life or death.

Dear ten million workers!

This is no time to give way simply to sorrow. The current situation urgently requests the working class to turn out in the struggle against Lee Myung-bak.

The workers should sternly punish Lee and the conglomerates to make a new country free from capital oppression and to lead worthwhile life.

Take the lead in the struggle against Lee Myung-bak as a creator of history and driving force of the revolution.

Intensify the struggle against policy of Lee who drives the working people to death.

Continue the struggle until the higher wages, the abolition of part-time jobs, guarantee for working rights and reinstatement of the dismissed prove success.

Liquidation of the trade unions is tantamount to a declaration of war.

Turn out in the struggle against the Lee regime and vicious capitalists’ suppression against the working movement.

Dear fellow countrymen!

The death of Park Jong-tae requests the all the working peoples not only the working class to turn out in the struggle against Lee Myung-bak.

Lee’s evil policy shows no mercy to workers, peasants, youth and students, and intellectuals.

Many people fell to victim of anti-national misrule and were executed by barbarous fascist suppression.

The south Koreans should intensify a nationwide struggle to liquidate the treacherous Lee clique, a notorious fascist cutthroat.

The south Koreans from all social standings vehemently denounce the Lee regime that drove Park to death in a national meeting of the workers to be held on May 16 and are full of a determination to make the Lee regime pay dear for his death.

Make the forthcoming meeting, a place of punishment against Lee Myung-bak, by enlarging the struggle against Lee across south Korea.

Make south Korea full of voices against Lee by taking part in the meeting.

The strength is inexhaustible when the entire south Korean is united and the unity is able to smash any formidable forces.

Let us bring about a new country for the working people through the struggle that Park and the south Koreans wish, wiping out the Lee regime by the nationwide drive.

Workers and Peasants’ Department of the AINDF Central Committee

Seoul

May 15, Juche 98

Rodong Sinmun on Reactionary Nature of Capitalist Society

Rodong Sinmun on Reactionary Nature of Capitalist Society

Pyongyang, November 22 (KCNA) -- What should be most strictly guarded against by those who value the sovereignty and dignity of each nation and want progress and prosperity is illusions about capitalism, Rodong Sinmun Sunday says in a signed article. Capitalist society is not a "free, democratic and prosperous society," but it is the most reactionary and anti-popular society which ruthlessly tramples down the freedom and democratic rights of the overwhelming majority of working masses while spawning all sorts of socio-economic inequality and the ideological and moral poverty, the article says, and goes on: The developed capitalist countries seem to be prosperous outwardly but are getting further corrupt from within due to the daily escalating contradictions. Its basic factor is the decadent material life, poor mental and cultural life and reactionary political life. In capitalist society where exploitation and plunder by capital are getting evermore pronounced and the people are not allowed to be put under the state protection, it is impossible to expect the equality in material life no matter how much material wealth increases. The rich are steadily getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The capitalist class massively spreads the reactionary and anti-popular idea and culture and the way of corrupt bourgeois life in a bid to benumb the independent ideological consciousness of the working masses, make the people meekly serve the capitalist system of exploitation and reduce them further into the slaves of money. The escalated pauperization in mental and cultural life can never be deterred in those countries under the capitalist social system which is based on extreme selfishness and the almighty dollar principle and governed by the law of the jungle. The imperialists and monopoly capitalists are enforcing the reactionary politics in a craftier way while more tightly taking hold of the state mechanism to keep their ruling system which is worsening day by day. On one hand they oppress and keep the working masses under their control by means of appeasement and deception and, on the other hand, fascistize the reactionary ruling mechanism and intensify the aggression and war policy. For its anti-popular nature, the capitalist system can never tide over imbalance between the deformed material life and the mental and cultural life getting poorer and imbalance between the popular masses' growing demand for independence and the political life getting more reactionary.