A mourner pays his respects on the funeral corridor of Seoul Nationwide College Hospital in Jongno-gu, Seoul, Sunday, at a memorial arrange for Chang Ki-pyo, a pro-democracy and labor activist within the Nineteen Seventies. (Yonhap)
Chang Ki-pyo, a outstanding pro-democracy and labor activist within the Nineteen Seventies, has died. He was 78.
Chang died of gallbladder most cancers early Sunday at a hospital in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province, in response to his household.
Born in 1945 and enrolled at Seoul Nationwide College in 1966, Chang started actively campaigning for democracy and labor rights in 1970 within the wake of the self-immolation of Jeon Tae-il.
Jeon burned himself to loss of life in 1970 in protest of brutal working situations at a Seoul stitching manufacturing facility.
Chang had been in jail for 9 years below the infamous Nationwide Safety Legislation.
Nevertheless, Chang refused to obtain compensation for the remedy he had undergone.
In a media interview in 2019, Chang mentioned he didn’t obtain compensation as a result of he performed a task as a “citizen and an mental.”
Since 1989, Chang had created some minor political events, however he by no means grew to become a lawmaker.
President Yoon Suk Yeol mourned Chang’s loss of life. “Chang Ki-pyo was a real function mannequin of the labor and democratization motion of our time. We are going to bear in mind him,” Yoon was quoted as saying by his spokesperson Jeong Hye-jeon.