Jeon Tae-il Memorial Hall 'When Small Wishes Come True' Exhibition Opens on the 5th

Until June 16, next year

The Beautiful Youth Jeon Tae-il Memorial Hall will hold a special exhibition titled "When Small Wishes Come True - The Beautiful Struggle Story of Cheonggye Garment Workers" from the 5th of this month until June 16th next year in the 3rd-floor special exhibition hall.

This exhibition, which reviews the early working conditions and wage improvement activities of the Cheonggye Garment Workers' Union formed after Jeon Tae-il's death, is divided into three parts.

The first part, "Formation," consists of the process of forming the Cheonggye Garment Workers' Union and the delegate conference that decided the direction of its projects. The second part, "Activities," contains the demands created by the early Cheonggye Garment Workers' Union after investigating and analyzing labor conditions, which led to labor-management councils and collective agreements that improved working conditions and wage systems. The third part, "Action," depicts the process in which union members acted together beyond union activities to solve labor issues and grow as individual workers.

Through the exhibition, visitors can see the activities of the early Cheonggye Garment Workers' Union that worked to improve labor conditions and wage systems, as well as the stories of workers who took initiative to solve problems themselves. In particular, the stories told by Cheonggye garment workers vividly reveal the labor environment of the market shops at the time and the efforts made to improve it. The exhibition features the union’s investigation reports, documents such as those on weekly holidays and night shift monitoring, and placards used in protests created by workers in their teens and twenties.

Oh Dong-jin, director of the Jeon Tae-il Memorial Hall, stated, "The improvements in labor conditions and wages by the Cheonggye Garment Workers' Union were possible because of the workers who participated in the union. The union members worked together to solve labor issues and were able to be born as individual workers. I hope this exhibition fully conveys the stories of young workers who strived to achieve their rights."

Admission to the exhibition is free. It is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day except Mondays.