Here are a few middle-aged men who have been working for KT, suffering a great deal of hardship all along. They refused the company's demand for early retirement. As a revenge, the company transferred them to remote regions, assigned them unusually hard tasks, and even bullied them in an organized way. The early retirement program was implemented with such an intensity especially towards the employees who were active in the progressive trade union. However, this triggered more resistance from those workers. They defy the company's vindictive actions, making the company no more than an object for ridicules. They now struggle against the company, not to just “survive” there, but to live a joyful life, going to work on time everyday, refusing the forced product sales, travelling, and dancing.

When I was younger, “having a stable, lifelong job” was such a “taken for granted” way of life. Now I know things are not the same as they were any more. There are so many people who do not have any other means to live but their own labor. People say we are in the era of insecure, irregular employment. But we still can see that there are some people with seemingly stable, regular, and happy jobs in huge companies. Are those regular workers really that well off then? I started wondering, and set off to interview some middled-aged full-time regular workers who used to be labor activists during the 1980s and 1990s, and have been working for a big, prestigious communication corporation. What I found is that it is still very hard even for those regular workers to work and keep dignity, that they too are anxious and frustrated about their future as workers, and that they are vulnerable to labor malpractices such as repeated pressure for resignation, forced sales of products, emotional labor, wage cutdown, etc.
We often say “I have no choice.” But I believe those workers I met have choices. Choices that they are simply not willing to make. They do not yield to those choices, but just keep moving on, resisting with joy.

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