GEOJE ISLAND, South Korea -- Yoo Choe-an crouched by a desk in an office conference room, demonstrating how he positioned his body over the month he confined himself inside a steel cage he built.
Yoo Choe-an crams himself into a steel cage in an attempt to win a pay raise from a South Korean shipyard in June 2022. The sign reads: "We can't live like this." (Photo by Byeon Baek-seon, Korean Metal Workers Union)
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