Gangjeong Village Story: Monthly Newsletter | July and August 2014 Double Issue

Posted by | Saturday, 30 August 2014 | English, Featured, newsletter

In this this July and August Special Edition: The Pope visits Korea, more caissons broken by typhoons, World Council of Churches calls for a stop to the base, special section on the 2014 Grand March, special section on the 2014 Peace for the Sea Camp, update on Milyang, Emergency Jeju DMZ forum, youth camps in Gangjeong, Gangjeong housing co-op, prison […]

10,000 Ton Samsung C&T Caisson Broken By Even A Medium Typhoon

Posted by | Thursday, 17 July 2014 | English, Environmental Assessments, Featured, Reports

If you remember the seven destroyed caissons (*a caisson is a huge concrete structure for building breakwater) by the big typhoons in 2012, you will also remember how unreliable the caisson construction has been; how wrong the base location is as the village is located on the very way of typhoon; how dumbfounding is waste of people’s tax for war […]