At Yeong-do shipyard, Prices for Hope was cruel

Jul. 12. 2011.

Workers on Crane
In Jun. 27, Union members of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction were dragged out of their protesting site. Power was cut, and workers were forced to climb onto the crane #85, where Jin-suk Kim has already lead a lone protest for 174 days since Jan. 6., where union delegate Joo-ik Kim hung himself in 2003 protest. Detailed information can be read here, here and here. Power was cut for two weeks (as of Jul. 12), and temperature fluctuates between 100 degrees and 40 degrees, Fahrenheit.


How Citizens in solidarity reacted, and how police reacted.
In Jul. 9, Citizens all over the country, who concern her conditions, gathered and rode on the bus to Yeong-do shipyard, Busan. Approximately 10,000 rode on Hope bringing buses and went to visit the workers at Yeong-do shipyard, where they were isolated by company hired thugs. Citizens gathered on Busan station, rallied through heavy rain, only to be blocked by police walls, to be shot with water cannons filled with tear gas solution and mob-marking pigments, and to be arrested. More than 50 were arrested and remaining members camped in front of the wall with no proper camping equipments. Detailed information can be found here.



Water cannon fired at the protesters. showing that they aimed at person. The solution contained PAVA, which British Police defines as "firearms".

Police breakdown as filmed by independent filmmakers

the Company strikes back.
After the rally breakdown, HHIC tried to install a safety net around the #85 crane in 14:00, Jul. 12. Jin-Suk Kim tweeted for emergency help, for it was a preliminary step to crash-in, an installment to protect the thug forces from fall during the operation, and a measure to prevent workers to throw themselves over the crane. After the "storm of retweets" and angry calls, HHIC explained that they were just cleaning up the scene, and installing of the net was cancelled.

But, that evening, HHIC threatened the members to cut the food supply for they blocked the net installation, and coerce Jin-suk Kim to sign the paper that says she admits her wrongdoing. Now HHIC, who sieges the workers, said that all the supplies for the crane, including food and water, is to be handed by them; The word "them" means, thugs who crashed the protest in Jun. 27, and drove workers to climb up the crane. 7pm that evening, Kim tweeted that she can't figure out what to do anymore. On 21:00 that evening, Kim tweeted once more, about her status on crane #85, via her twitter account @JINSUK_85

In prison, they don't torment you with food.
In prison, there is thing called electricity.
In prison, they give you book or newspaper.
In prison, no safety net is brought up.
No "riot police", No company-hired-thugs.
Even in prison, there is hope,
that you can walk out when you serve your time,
that you can live once again.

With no electricity, no heating or air-conditioning, she is still isolated, sieged by company forces. The only way to communicate to outside world is sun, which charges her cellphone via solar charger. Today marks her 188th day on crane.