Workers strike at Ssangyong motors

[15357]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjfkQXwyvSw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUBVMvtY2io&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtQfLqKLr8Y&feature=related

Female Combat Police

Level 7 Fire Sorceror

In other news, Ssangyong has filed for bankruptcy.

 

[MJ12]

The combat police woman scratching her chin assures us that they are ****ed.

 

[Murray]

Ouch, this planet is going straight to hell.

 

[Remus]

At first glance it looked like this guy was wearing a cowboy hat, and I was thinking wtf?

 

[Vegeta897]

Numbers I love your riot threads. These videos are terrifying and totally just stun me the whole time.

Also those slingshots are awesome, and the female police are do want.

 

[15357]

Numbers I love your riot threads. These videos are terrifying and totally just stun me the whole time.

Also those slingshots are awesome, and the female police are do want.

Heh. Not too many people appreciate, but those that do are enough to make me go around and look for these.


edit:

I love how their armor looks. So effing cool.

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Level 7 Fire Sorceror

****ing jesus christ.

How often do you have peaceful strikes or protests in South Korea?

Numbers you're warping my view of your country. I feel like every time there is a disagreement about something, a batallion of the emperors finest troops are sent in and then the shit hits the fan.

 

[Warped]

you guys need more holidays, thats for sure!

 

[15357]

****ing jesus christ.

How often do you have peaceful strikes or protests in South Korea?

Numbers you're warping my view of your country. I feel like every time there is a disagreement about something, a batallion of the emperors finest troops are sent in and then the shit hits the fan.

Well....

To be honest, I don't really know. My best guess is that since nobody cares about them, the protesters feel that they have to be violent in order to get themselves heard.

It's normally very peaceful around here. Seoul has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, but when shit hits the fan, it hits it pretty hard.







Or Kim Jong Il is secretly controlling them.

 

[Vegeta897]

Heh, the female combat police armor has crotch guards.

Heh, heh.

Why are they all so attractive ****. I want hi res.

 

[Remus]

Heh, the female combat police have crotch guards.

Heh, heh.

Falcon PUuuuuunn... OUCH!


For me, they might've been do want with less armour... :naughty:

 

[DEATHMASTER]

To prevent rape

 

[Acepilotf14]

Heh, the female combat police armor has crotch guards.

Heh, heh.

Why are they all so attractive ****. I want hi res.

It still hurts to get smacked in the crotch with something, no matter your gender.

 

[Danimal]

They all look like flat-chested effeminite men in anime-armor.

I don't understand how you can find them so att--

Oh.

 

[Dinnesch]

Awesome! I love these videos.
but why the f*ck do they have a seperate female combat team? Because men are afraid to hurt them?

 

[15357]

Awesome! I love these videos.
but why the f*ck do they have a seperate female combat team? Because men are afraid to hurt them?

Well, affirmative action, for one.







And they have to deal with female protesters, since sending out fully armored women to arrest women is better than sending out fully armored men.

 

[Jintor]

That's not a strike, that's a riot/protest.

Either way, you bring gifts of cool photos and knowledge of Korea. Go Numbers!

 

[Sulkdodds]

How did a strike turn into a battle?

 

[15357]

I have no idea.



I'll have to check with the authorities.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Numbers, one of these days I am going to go to South Korea as a journalist on a mission to investigate the world of SK activism and find out for the English-speaking world just why, if politics are as polarised as they seem, this is so; with you as my translator we will grill the police and commies, go undercover at riots and protests and disagree amusingly for the microphone (me earnestly, affably intrusive; you comically aghhast at any suggestion that the police are not just).

 

[Tyguy]

that looked like a good time...i wish my office would riot. I'd be the first guy manning the slingshots.

 

[Dodo]

as they're probably all 1,40m tall I'd ****ing own in there, steel tip boot kicking actions ftw.

-dodo

 

[Sparta]

Numbers, one of these days I am going to go to South Korea as a journalist on a mission to investigate the world of SK activism and find out for the English-speaking world just why, if politics are as polarised as they seem, this is so; with you as my translator we will grill the police and commies, go undercover at riots and protests and disagree amusingly for the microphone (me earnestly, affably intrusive; you comically aghhast at any suggestion that the police are not just).

This would make for a pretty decent documentary series, ala Louis Theroux. I'm down for this. Hell, i'll help produce it.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I could tell that Numbers wasn't comfortable with my question. I wondered if I'd touched on a sensitive subject.

 

[Sparta]

I could tell that Numbers wasn't comfortable with my question. I wondered if I'd touched on a sensitive subject.

Sulkdodds: "Is this a bit too much for you?"

Numbers: "Me?"

...

Numbers: "It's not too much for me. I believe it's too much for the people though."

...

Numbers:"They shouldn't be subjected to these kind of socialist political games that these unions play."

...

...

Sulkdodds: "Why?"

Numbers: "Well, it will distract them from their jobs."

...

Numbers: "Less work will be done and less money will be made and slowly the economy will falter."

Sulkdodds: "The economy will falter?"

Numbers: "Yes the economy will falter."

Sulkdodds: "How would this riot get the attention of so many people that they'd all stop working just enough to collapse the economy of South Korea? That doesn't seem to make sense to me."

Numbers: "Well that wouldn't happen, but what I mean to say is, if enough people watch, slowly over time that number of people watching and not working would build up over every riot these communists cause, and sooner than later, it would bring the economy down with it"

...

Sulkdodds: "That doesn't make any sense."

Numbers: "It makes perfect sense."

Sulkdodds: "No it doesn't."

Numbers: "You just aren't thinking like a South Korean."

...

It was clear I wouldn't understand Numbers argument unless I began to think like a South Korean, so i travelled to Seoul to learn more about what it is to think like one.

Wow i could pretty much just write an entire Louis Theroux doco on my own now.

 

[Raziaar]

Yeah, it's a good thing that guy on the left is wearing a hard hat, because otherwise he would get his skull crushed. lol at his head behind right in the path of the projectile if the guy would let it go just then.

Also. wtf at those green frame things on the forklifts. What are those? And why the **** are they charging at those tents at full speed when those could very easily kill or maim someone?

Or was that on the side of the protesters? I couldn't tell. I assumed it was on the side of the riot police because how there was a full platoon standing in front of one and it wasn't ramming the shit out of them.


Also, are there any good riot movies? Dealing with both sides during a riot or riots. Would be pretty cool.

Watching the rest of the videos now(only just watched the first one).

EDIT: On second glance at the slingshot photo, I can't tell if his head is between the rubber, or to the side of it. The yellow hardhat makes it difficult to tell without zooming in and looking at the pixels.

 

[CptStern]

perhaps Numbers would know better than I but my impression is that mainstream media in SK does whatever the **** the government wants it to do so good luck finding a favourable pov of the protestors from SK media. you probably have to look outside of SK to find unbiased accounts

 

[<RJMC>]

I thought ssangyong was chinese,still I have see tons of theyr vehicles recently,didnt thouhg they will go bankrupt

 

[Sulkdodds]

I began by playing a lot of Starcraft.

Also, are there any good riot movies? Dealing with both sides during a riot or riots. Would be pretty cool.

You want Bloody Sunday by Paul Greengrass.

 

[Azner]

That's not a strike, that's a riot/protest.

Either way, you bring gifts of cool photos and knowledge of Korea. Go Numbers!

In Singapore, anything is a riot.

*Gets arrested*

 

[theotherguy]

Why do evil oppressors always have such awesome uniforms?

 

[Krynn72]

I like how both sides are uniformed and face each other in mobs. We should conduct our warfare that way, its so much cooler to see.

/me dons his Roman shield and armor.

 

[Danimal]

Why do evil oppressors always have such awesome uniforms?

It's how they draw people in to work for them, if they had average looking uniforms then no one would work for them! D:

 

[15357]

Numbers, one of these days I am going to go to South Korea as a journalist on a mission to investigate the world of SK activism and find out for the English-speaking world just why, if politics are as polarised as they seem, this is so; with you as my translator we will grill the police and commies, go undercover at riots and protests and disagree amusingly for the microphone (me earnestly, affably intrusive; you comically aghhast at any suggestion that the police are not just).

That'd be actually awesome. I'd love that.


Of course, I'll prolly say something stupid most of the time.

Wow i could pretty much just write an entire Louis Theroux doco on my own now.

I lol'd heartedly.



And um... yeah, that was one of my arguments in a previous thread. I now realize the fallacy of it.

Damn it.

Yeah, it's a good thing that guy on the left is wearing a hard hat, because otherwise he would get his skull crushed. lol at his head behind right in the path of the projectile if the guy would let it go just then.

Also. wtf at those green frame things on the forklifts. What are those? And why the **** are they charging at those tents at full speed when those could very easily kill or maim someone?

Or was that on the side of the protesters? I couldn't tell. I assumed it was on the side of the riot police because how there was a full platoon standing in front of one and it wasn't ramming the shit out of them.


Also, are there any good riot movies? Dealing with both sides during a riot or riots. Would be pretty cool.

Watching the rest of the videos now(only just watched the first one).

EDIT: On second glance at the slingshot photo, I can't tell if his head is between the rubber, or to the side of it. The yellow hardhat makes it difficult to tell without zooming in and looking at the pixels.

I'm not sure about the slingshot either.

Anyway, the forklifts are on the strikers' side, as you can see from the emergency vehicles running away from them.

The tents were some sort of makeshift medical/command facility made by the anti-union/strike group of workers of the Ssangyong plant.

The two sides were fighting for 2 days until the police intervened, making the strike into a confused melee; Police VS Strikers VS Anti-Strikers.


troops airdropped by helicopter:

Factory Security attacked by molotovs.

edit: more photos:

 

[Krynn72]

If I were the last guy about to go up that ladder, I'd totally kick it out from under them. Even if the others were my friends. It would be hilarious.

 

[Sparta]

I lol'd heartedly.

And um... yeah, that was one of my arguments in a previous thread. I now realize the fallacy of it.

Damn it.

Oh wow, really? I just made that up. I didn't think you had actually said anything like that.

So why are the workers striking exactly?

 

[15357]

Apparently because of layoffs and wage cuts, despite the fact that they are paid more than $3000 a month, which is a thousand dollars more than the average white-collar worker.



And no, there aren't any news stories that go in-depth into the reasons of the strike, although many describe in great detail the progress of the violence. :/

 

[CptStern]

And no, there aren't any news stories that go in-depth into the reasons of the strike, although many describe in great detail the progress of the violence. :/

and this doesnt send up alarm bells that something isnt right here? it's one sided propaganda used by the media/government to portray the protestors as violent malcontents who have nothing better to do than riot. this is not a free society

 

[Azner]

Since when did Korea become Taiwan?

 

[15357]

and this doesnt send up alarm bells that something isnt right here? it's one sided propaganda used by the media/government to portray the protestors as violent malcontents who have nothing better to do than riot. this is not a free society

Or maybe it's because violence sells better? There's always a better explanation than those conspiracy theories.