MIGRANT WORKER’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN CHANGWON

Social Performance, 2004

MIGRANT WORKER’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN PERFORMANCE PART 4

Chan Won City

Title: Migrant Worker’s Election Campaign Performance Part 4, Changwon City

Producer/ Author /Director: Park Kyong Ju

Collaborator: Chun Min Sung (OHMYNEWS CITIZEN REPORTER)

Camera: Park Kyong Ju

Edit: Park Kyong Ju

Year: December 26, 2004

Length: 60min. (Documentary Video)

Place: A fake election campaign performance was held on the streets of in downtown Changwon, and citizens were interviewed.

Context:

Lee Hae-mini (30, Nepal), a member of the sit-in group, held a tent sit-in for 380 days at Myeong-dong Cathedral, calling for the full legalization of undocumented migrant workers and against forced deportation. In this performance, he appeared as an election candidate for the migrant workers’ campaign performance in Changwon.

The performance, which started by distributing handouts to passengers on the train headed for Changwon, continued with ‘Encounter with Asian Culture’, a year-end event hosted by Changwon City and the Gyeongnam Foreign Workers Counseling Center.

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