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Making a boat, making a countryb 1960s What was the economic development and democracy that Korean laborers (now Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction) dreamed of? bThis book is a story about labor union which was built by shipyard workers of Korea Shipbuilding Corporation (now Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction), which was once the largest shipyard in Korea, located in Busan, a port city in the southeastern part of the Korean peninsula. It is about the country that they wanted to live in and wanted to create. This book also tells the story of the old men at the welding factory, which Jin Seok Kim, a fired worker, first stepped into her ear and encouraged her to run for a trade union delegate. Today, Hanjin Heavy Industries Trade Union It is about the time for democratic unions to reappear in Hanjin Heavy Industries in the 1980s, centered on Kim Jin-suk, Park Chang-soo and Kim Joo-Ik. I have kept documents near to it for decades. Based on these data, the author vividly recreates the story of a democratic union that has been in conflict with the Korean government during the period of 1961-79. In addition, this paper analyzes the historical, social, and political sources of the struggle, focusing on the perceptions and attitudes of the shipyard heavy industry men workers and their discourse. It argues that even though the movement ended in defeat, it had a great influence on the labor movement in the future. And that such influences had a major impact on the birth of a militant democratic union in Korea in the late 1950s and the strong movement of the movement throughout the 1960s, and the history of this democratic union movement And experience have also had an important impact on the Korean labor movement, which has erupted rapidly since the mid-1980s. And reinterprets labor politics from below, revealing that workers minds and worldview in the 1960s can be aggregated into solidarity and democracy.