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At the General Meeting of delegates, held last Thursday(1.28), the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) selected Kim Yeong-hun as its new chairman.

Kim, a railway worker and former head of the Korean Transport Workers’ Union, will be leading the organization for the next three years.
"On his shoulders is the task of breathing new air into the KCTU as it enters its fifteenth year and restoring the organization to its previously-held standing", The Hankyoreh wrote before yesterday.

But the S. Korean ruling class and its mouthpiece (the bourgeois media) already predicts - and celebrates in advance - a possible "radical change" in the KCTU:

KCTU elects moderate to lead it into the future

- Kim pledged that he would “eliminate the KCTU’s outdated labor protests and deepening intrafactional activities.”
- Kim will change the union’s long-standing aggressive manner. As the largest moderate faction inside KCTU supported Kim in the election, labor issue observers say it is very unlikely for Kim to stage radical actions, such as a general strike...

Source: JoongAng Ilbo (1.30)

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