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Korean environmental activists occupied a road leading to a coal power station being built by Samcheok Blue Power in Samcheok, Gangwon Province, where they unfurled a massive banner reading “End Coal.” (Park Jong-shik/The Hankyoreh)

Ahead of next week’s UN Climate Ambition Summit, which will be attended by global leaders including South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, Korean environmental activists held a flash demonstration that blocked coal trucks from entering a coal-fired power station being built by Samcheok Blue Power in Samcheok, Gangwon Province.

Police respond to environmental activists occupying a road leading to a coal power station being built in Samcheok, Gangwon Province. (Park Jong-shik/The Hankyoreh)

“We’ve held this demonstration to support the global campaign to end the use of fossil fuel and to bring awareness to the fact that the fossil fuel industry is actually expanding and that large corporations and the South Korean government are behaving like climate villains,” the activists said.

Five members of environmental groups were hauled off by the police after blocking traffic for more than two hours.

Korean environmental activists occupied a road leading to a coal power station being built by Samcheok Blue Power in Samcheok, Gangwon Province, on Sept. 12. The sign pictured here reads, “Capitalism that destroys the community of Earth cannot be justified!” (Park Jong-shik/The Hankyoreh)

Korean environmental activists occupied a road leading to a coal power station being built by Samcheok Blue Power in Samcheok, Gangwon Province, where some protestors chained themselves to ladders that others sat atop. (Park Jong-shik/The Hankyoreh)

olice drag away an environmental activist protesting fossil fuel outside a coal power station being built by Samcheok Blue Power in Samcheok, Gangwon Province, on Sept. 12. (Park Jong-shik/The Hankyoreh)

By Park Jong-shik, staff reporter

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