At the beginning of the newspaper, we look at the news flow of the week with front-page photos of the reader’s first meeting. Editorial comment
March 8 [월] Portrait of working women
Female’transparent workers’ who were easy to be erased from our daily life, such as carers, cleaning workers, and customer service consultants, have been revived as portraits. This work was completed by illustrator Hee-Rok Jang with the Women’s Committee of the National Federation of Democratic Trade Unions ahead of World Women’s Day this year. The sincere gaze, staring at the front, conveys the dignity of female workers who open the future with solidarity. The committee conspired with the stories of female workers and presented a limited edition coffee bag with this portrait to the selected. On March 8, 1908, 113 years after female workers in the United States raised the lanterns of women’s rights at Rutgers Square in New York, shouting “Bread and Roses”. The journey towards a world without gender discrimination will continue. With these women who are invisible but certainly exist. By Lee Jung-ah, staff reporter [email protected]
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March 9 [화] Women’s Day, a girl who honors a victim of a misogynistic crime
On the 7th (local time) before the March 8 International Women’s Day (local time), a girl and women insert flowers into the wall with the names of the victims of “misogynistic crimes” at a women’s day protest in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. . Mexico City/Reuters Yonhap News
March 10 [수] Even if it’s a non-contact meeting… “Mom” daughter ran to nursing hospital
On the morning of the 9th, a patient and a daughter in their 90s at the Gangnam Nursing Hospital in Dong-gu, Gwangju, have a non-contact visit, and they are facing each other with a transparent screen in between. As the quarantine authorities established the standards for non-contact visits, limited family visits were resumed from this day at this nursing hospital. Gwangju/Yonhap News
March 11 [목] It’s been 10 years… Radioactive waste at the Fukushima Playground
On the 28th of last month, black sacks of wastes such as soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive materials are temporarily piled up in a playground in the “return difficult area” in the Tomioka area of Fukushima Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The problem of radioactive material contamination caused by the radioactive material leakage accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which occurred during the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, has not been resolved until now, 10 years after the accident. Tomioka/AP Yonhap News
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March 12 [금] ‘Ashy reality’ outside the billboard… Highly concentrated fine dust until the weekend
Following the 11th, the Ministry of Environment issued a level of attention to the ultrafine dust crisis warning in Seoul, Gyeonggi, Incheon and other metropolitan areas on the 12th and took emergency measures to reduce fine dust. Accordingly, the operation of coal power plants will be reduced and the operation of grade 5 diesel vehicles will be restricted. The Ministry of Environment predicted that the situation of high-density fine dust will continue until the 15th of the weekend, centering on the Midwest. On the 11th, the vicinity of Gwanghwamun intersection in Jongno-gu, Seoul, looks hazy. The average daily concentration of ultrafine dust as of 1 p.m. on that day was 104㎍/㎥ in Seoul, 103㎍/㎥ in Gyeonggi, 94㎍/㎥ in Incheon, and 93㎍/㎥ in Chungnam. Written by Kim Min-je, photo by Kim Hye-yoon, [email protected]
March 13 [토] Infested public sentiment, Byun Chang-heum finally pulled out his resignation
After the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Byun Chang-heum expressed his gratitude on the afternoon of the 12th, he left the Homeland Development Exhibition Center in Jeong-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, where his office is located, and after getting into the car, he is looking at his smartphone. By Kim Bong-kyu, senior reporter [email protected] By Lee Jung-ah, staff reporter [email protected]