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Despite the ongoing - and ahead of the G20 Summit (Nov. 11~12 in Seoul) partly increasing - repression against trade union/strike activities(*) only a small number, according to KCTU 4000 workers, followed a call for the "National Mass Protest Day" of irregular workers, held y'day afternoon/evening in downtown Seoul:

Related reports:
☞ 서울광장서 전국비정규노동자대회 열려 (NewsCham, 10.30)

☞ 비정규직철폐 전국노동자대회...2부 전태일 40주기 기념문화제 (KCTU, 10.30)

☞ "공정사회 원한다면 전태일을 기억하라" (OMN, 10.30)

☞ 전태일 40주기 추모 문화제...공연 및 부대행사 마련 (VoP, 10.30)

* Today's Yonhap reported about a current disturbing example the following:
A branch leader of the Korean Metal Workers' Union (KMWU) is in critical condition after setting himself on fire to protest against the police's attempt to arrest him amid a sit-in strike at the Korea Electronics (KEC) factory, police said Sunday.

   Kim Jun-il, a KEC employee and the KMWU branch chief of Gumi, 261 kilometers southeast of Seoul, poured inflammables onto his body Saturday night when police officials stormed into the factory to arrest him with a warrant soon after the union and KEC management failed to narrow differences over the new union payment system.