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Title: A Single Spark: Film About Korean Labor Movement
START DATE: 4/17/2003
START TIME: 7:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: KIWA
Location Details:
3465 West 8th Street (at Hobart)
Los Angeles
Event Topic:
Event Type: Film Screening
Contact Name: Mindullae
Contact Email: wonsuk@fastmail.fm
Contact Phone:
DESCRIPTION:
Clip of feature-length film on the life of Chun Tae-Il

Discussion with Dr. Chun Soon-Ok, sister of Chun Tae-Il

Introducing the English publication of

A Single Spark: Biography of Chun Tae-Il

Chun Tae-Il is the most famous of Korean labor movement figures.? His death by self-immolation became the trigger for the democratic workers' movement that began in the 1970s, and remains a symbol for the movement today.? Dr. Chun Soonok, the younger sister of Chun Tae-Il, begins a national tour with a new book on his life, entitled A SINGLE SPARK: The Biography of Chun Tae-Il.? Published this month in English, this book describes not only Chun's life but provides the historical and social context of the 1960s and 1970s in South Korea. Dr.Chun, herself a former sweat-shop worker and now a scholar specializing in industrial relations, will give a presentation on her brother's life, the movement his sacrifice inspired, and a current examination of workers' conditions as corporate globalization intensifies. The program will begin with an excerpt from the feature film drama on Chun Tae-Il's life, also entitled A SINGLE SPARK (dir: Park Kwang Soo).? Copies of the book A Single Spark (Cho Young-rae, Dolbaggye Publishers: Seoul, March 2003) will also be available.

About Chun Tae-Il

Born in 1948 in utter poverty, Chun Tae-Il had little education, and worked, like many millions of others, in the garment sweatshops of Seoul.? There, he witnessed the horrific treatment of young female co-workers, who were continually under threat of beatings and rapes by supervisors, while forced to work 16 - 20 hours a day -and barely being paid.? Inspired to help them fight for their rights, he attempted to organize against their brutal employers and the indifferent South Korean military dictatorship.? Frustrated at every turn, he made the final sacrifice on November 13, 1970 for the women workers, immolating himself - shocking not only the nation, but the world.? His ultimate sacrifice at the age of 22 helped to trigger a Korean workers' movement, and the development of independent labor unions.? These democratic trade unions - under continual attack by the then military dictatorship, eventually helped to fuel the largest social protests in the history of Korea, which resulted in the first democratic elections in 1987.

About Dr. Chun Soonok

After working in the factories of Seoul's Peace Market in the 1970s, Ms. Chun became active in the women workers' movement.?? With a special scholarship, she was able to attend college, and received her Ph.D in industrial relations at the University of Warwick, UK.? She has returned to Korea, setting up a women workers' center in Seoul.? Her own book, THEY ARE NOT MACHINES: The Birth of Democratic Trade Unionism in Korea will be out this summer.

National tour sponsor: Nodutdol for Korean Community Development

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Los Angeles area sponsors:

? ???????? Claremont Professors for Peace and Justice

? ???????? Intercollegiate Dept. of Asian American Studies, Claremont Colleges (IDAAS)

? ???????? Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates (KIWA)

? ???????? Mindullae Center for Korean Community Development



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