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Yesterday's "Int'l Workers' Day" in S. Korea: The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(KCTU) staged a massive rally in downtown Seoul, calling for greater efforts to enhance workers' rights...

Under the slogan, "Let's create a new labor environment in the South Korean society," the KCTU highlighted a series of union demands, such as an end to unfair layoffs, the same wage for the same work, and the elimination of workplace sexual abuses and discrimination against migrant workers...

"We make a declaration for the S. Korean society where the right to work is guaranteed for all," Kim Myoung-hwan, the KCTU chief, told a gathering of some 10,000 people at Seoul Plaza...

Prior the Korean Health and Medical Workers' Union, the Korean Teachers and Educational Workers' Union and other groups held their own rallies/demos.

Here you'll get KCTU's detailed report(in Korean), incl. lots of pics. And here you'll get today's Hankyoreh photo report(in English).

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