This paper explores how writers in the South Korean broadcasting industry have collectively struggled against their precarious working conditions and faced distinctive difficulties in taking their collective actions, including unionization. Based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 23 research participants, this paper examines why and how these South Korean writers have established various forms of collective worker organization: from a professional association to informal grassroots communities, to a women-only trade union, to two unions of media workers who are freelance or on contract. I argue that the activism of these writers reflects the intersection of different identities, ranging from women to freelancers to cultural workers and that their activism promotes the idea that working creatively, autonomously and equitably should be recognized as a basic labour right.

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争取斗争权：文化工作者的劳工权利与工会

本文探讨了韩国广播业的作家如何集体与不稳定的工作条件作斗争，并在采取集体行动（包括加入工会）时面临独特的困难。基于对 23 名研究参与者的半结构化深度访谈，本文探讨了这些韩国作家为何以及如何建立各种形式的集体工人组织：从专业协会到非正式的基层社区，再到仅限女性的工会，两个自由职业者或合同工媒体工作者工会。我认为这些作家的激进主义反映了不同身份的交集，从女性到自由职业者再到文化工作者，他们的激进主义宣扬了这样一种理念：创造性、自主和公平地工作应该被视为一项基本劳工权利。