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Today's Yonhap reported the following: Tens of thousands of South Korean workers marked Labor Day with a rally in central Seoul, urging the gov't to adopt major international regulations on promoting labor rights. Commemorating International Workers' Day simultaneously, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KTCU), an umbrella labor union, said it's urgent for the country to ratify key conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO)...(more you can read here)

Rallies organised by our union in 13 different cities. "A new caste system has taken hold as the discrimination of non-regular workers in wages and job status has caused extreme social divide," KCTU president Kim Myoung-hwan said at the Seoul rally. "Small shop owner, the poor, the disabled and every other member of the socially weak are living precariously in an unequal society that's dominated by chaebol and offers only a punctured social safety net." We urged the gov't to ratify the fundamental ILO conventions on freedom of association and forced labour immediately...(source: KCTU via fb, 5.01)

KCTU's detailed report(in Korean), incl. lots of impressive pics, you​'ll get here.