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South Korean Man Spent 355 Days on a Tower to Protest Samsung After spending almost a year on top of a 25-meter traffic camera tower in Seoul, a former Samsung employee has decided to come down, ending his protest against the company. Kim Yong-hee, now 60, began working for Samsung in 1982. Soon after joining the company, he tried to get workers together to form a union, but he says he was fired..

Almost 12 Million Hectares of Tropical Forest Lost in 2019 The tropics lost 11.9 million hectares of forest — or about 119,000 square kilometers — in 2019, including 3.8 million hectares of tropical primary rainforest. According to data from the University of Maryland published by Global Forest Watch, that means the world lost an area of tropical primary forest the size of a soccer field every 6..

WHO Accuses Tobacco Industry of Targeting Kids The World Health Organization (WHO) has accused the tobacco industry of using manipulative tactics to get children and young people hooked on their deadly tobacco and nicotine products. has accused the tobacco industry of using manipulative tactics - 비난하다 담배산업을 of 사람을 움직이게하는 전략 Coordinator of WHO’s No Tobacco Unit, Vinayak Prasad, says the tobacco i..

Black Lives Matter: Why Americans Are Protesting There have been hundreds of protests across America — and dozens more around the world — since George Floyd, an African-American man, was killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25. Many people were outraged by a video showing a white police officer pressing his knee on Floyd's neck, doing so for almost nine minutes while Floyd said he ..

South Korea has Worst Gender Pay Gap in OECD South Korean women get paid 34.1% less than South Korean men, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). That's the worst gender pay gap in the OECD, where the average gap among 27 of its 36 member countries was 13.2%. get paid : 임금을 받다. (수동태 느낌) The report used information from 2018, or the most recent available. I..