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South Korea's Most Retweeted Story: Newspaper Ad Against Unfair Layoff

Categories: East Asia, South Korea, Digital Activism, Education, Human Rights, Labor, Media & Journalism

South Korea's Hongik University laid off its maintenance workers who formed a labor union. This has sparked mass online protest, prompting citizens to buy a newspaper ad proposing the Dean to have frank talks. South Korea's citizen media, WikiTree announced[ko] it [1]the most retweeted article (around 2000 times) in its Twit history.