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Yesterday's (bourgeois)Korea Times reported the following:

When the Supreme Court last month recognized illegal immigrants' right to belong to a trade union, Park Jin-woo, deputy secretary general of the nation's first migrant workers' union, believed the hurdle to being recognized was cleared.

But he soon faced another obstacle because labor authorities have refused to register the Migrants' Trade Union (MTU) officially.

The MTU applied for the registration earlier this month following the historic top court ruling on June 25 that came a decade after the union launched the suit in 2005.

But the Ministry of Employment and Labor rejected the application...(the entire piece you can read here)

So, during yesterday's press conference...

...MTU activists announced that they're ready to fight back and started a sit-in struggle in front of Seoul Regional Ministry of Employment and Labour...