Today's Hankyoreh reported that...

Hyundai Motor labor union called a halt to dialogue with the company’s management after the automaker gave notice that is going through with the hiring of in-house subcontracting workers as new regular employees during negotiations on the conversion of illegal dispatch workers to regular employee status. Observers are now expecting that a sit-in protest on a transmission tower(in Ulsan) by workers demanding a status change for all in-house subcontracting employees will continue indefinitely. The workers have been up on the tower since Oct. 17, more than sixty days...   (Here you can read the full article)