Changes at Famed Noryangjin Fish Market Ignite Struggle

These days any tourists or shoppers passing through Seoul’s Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market will see a lot of red. Not just the red of the plastic slotted bins for sorting fish, the rubber gloves used for handing them or the deep flush of stacked sea pineapple. In Noryangjin today red ribbons with yellow writing drape the hanging lamps of every stall and matching red vests sit on the shoulders of the vendors as they work. The red symbolizes protest by the Noryangjin vendors — specifically