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History of Masan


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n-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:14.4pt;background:white">1979 - Protests broke out in Masan (as well as in Busan) against the regime of President Park Chung-hee following a brutal police crackdown on a sit-in strike of female textile workers from YH Trading Company. Workers in Masan's Free-export Zone even managed to create four labor unions.

2009 - On December 7, the city council approved a proposal to merge Masan with Changwon and Jinhae, to form a yet-to-be-named city of over one million people. The city councils of the other two cities have also approved the merger, which would bring national funds to the metropolis through an existing law to aid cities with a population over one million. The Provincial Council of South Gyeongsang Province must approve the merger. A decision is expected in the penultimate week of December.

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