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S.Korean net users mourn over the death of a struggling movie writer

Categories: East Asia, South Korea, Arts & Culture, Digital Activism, Film, Labor, Protest

South Korean net users commemorated the death of Choi Go-eun, a movie writer who died from chronic disease after battling with the poverty and huger with earning less than minimum wage, around 600 USD a year. The Federation of Movie Worker’s Union defined her death[ko] [1]a ‘social murder’ and criticized the rampant injustice in movie industry.