Political action in general by the working class of the Republic of Korea

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Rival Labor Camps Join Hands for Labor Bill?
Chosun Ilbo, 4 December 1996. Will the joint struggle between government-recognised Federation of Korean Trade Unions and its rival the dissident Korean Confederation of Trade Unions be able counter the new labor bill?
Korean workers take on the dragon
By Laurent Carroué, Le Monde diplomatique, February 1997. The UK economic model, with its excellent macro-economic indices and its disintegrating society, is meeting with growing opposition elsewhere in the world. Workers in South Korea staged protests this January and are now demanding greater democracy.
Workers And Students Rally In Seoul
Arm The Spirit, 24 November 1997. Around 20,000 workers and left-wing student activists rallied in Seoul on Sunday, November 9, 1997, to celebrate Labor Day, a commemoration of Jon Thae Il, a symbol for the present day militant labor movement in Korea, a worker from the Pyung Hwa Market Garment Company who immolated himself to protest exploitation and oppression on November 13, 1970.
[On Korean labor and political representation]
By Heiko Khoo, 26 November 1997. Whether the movement has a Social-Democratic orientation. The anti-Capitalist left attempted to create revolutionary parties, but no one succeeded because consciousness does not leap to creating a mass workers party with revolutionary aims.