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Two days ago(9.23) Yonhap reported the following: Thousands of unionized workers across the country walked out of their workplaces Wednesday to protest the implementation of a trilateral commission's recent deal on labor reform. About 5,000 unionized workers from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), one of South Korea's two labor umbrella groups, joined the one-day strike opposing the plan to reform the labor market in what they call a management-friendly way, the Namdaemun Police Station said...

In the interests of clarity: There wasn't any KCTU strike - let alone a "general strike" - on that day(except the ongoing wage dispute @Hyundai Motor)!! KCTU's so-called "9.23 General Strike" was just a 'struggle' rally/demo(*) "to protest the implementation of a trilateral commission's recent deal on labor reform", joined by 10,000(according to the independent media/4,500~5,500 according to the cops and the S.K. bourgeois media) labour activists...

But it was a "wonderful opportunity" for the S. Korean 'authorities', represented by the riot cops, to go hog wild...

* Here you can watch a documentary[in three parts (#1, #2 &#3) depicting KCTU's "9.23 General Strike" from the beginning(KTU activists arrested in front of the Nat'l Assembly) untill the end in front of the Sejeong Culture Center]...