Seoul and Incheon City We took the metro out to Incheon City, moving from the 10 million person Seoul to the 2.7 million person industrial town of Incheon. In the wake of the unemployment created by the IMF currency crises 10 years ago, there was unemployment particularly in the manufacturing sector that had been …
Category: International
Irregular Workers
Seoul Korea has had an excellent set of labor legislation, providing good protections. They were too good perhaps in the view of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which made gutting some of them a condition for bailout loans during the financial crisis here. It turns out that part of the impetus behind my …
Vladeck and Na Plans
Seoul The Sunday conversations that I really did have in and around the Y in Seoul were valuable enough in their own right. First, I finally connected with Liza Vladeck, whose name had been on everyone’s lips when the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) first reached Moscow. She had seen my blog and reached out …