Re: [97attendees] Protests in Seoul

[Alexandre PETRESCU <[e-mail]>]

During the SF IETF meeting protest was against Iraq invasion, March 2002(?).

The protest during IETF in Yokohama was about public function jobs, 
November 2015. youtu.be/Li15Prw_Jko

Protests happened during IETF in Prague, Paris and presumably many others.

No problems to IETF participants that I can recall either.

On another hand, earlier I was positively surprised in S Korea military 
people in public areas wear uniform even if not in service.  There 
seemed to be less risk than in other capitals where uniforms show up 
only if on duty.   I wonder whether it is still the case...

Alex

Le 05/11/2016 à 23:12, Margaret Cullen a écrit :
> There was a huge, non-violent protest going on during one of the IETFs in San Francisco, and it caused no problems for the IETF, as I recall.  Hopefully the same will be true of peaceful protests in Seoul.
>
> Margaret
>
>
>> On Nov 5, 2016, at 5:08 PM, Via Pesquet <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I think the mass protest that happened on Saturday (Nov. 5 KST) was held at the Gwanghwamun Square.  It's a bit far from Conrad Hotel. You'd have to cross the Han River to get to the hotel from the square. There are smaller protests in other areas but I don't think it's something that we should worry about.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Via Pesquet
>> Netpia
>>
>>> On 5 Nov 2016, at 20:26, Yoav Nir <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Seoul is a capital cities. Protests against the government are a constant feature of most capital cities (South Korea’s neighbor to the north is an obvious exception).
>>>
>>> I wouldn’t worry about it.
>>>
>>> Yoav
>>>
>>>> On 5 Nov 2016, at 11:25, Vinayak Hegde <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just read an article on Reuters about large scale protests at Seoul
>>>> against the government. Does anyone know what areas these are
>>>> affecting ? Are they likely to get violent or peter out by the time we
>>>> meet ? Can someone from South Korea please comment.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-politics-idUSKCN12T08V
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Vinayak
>>>>
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