500 Seoul Cabdrivers Held After Pay Protest
From Reuters
SEOU, South Korea —
Five hundred cabdrivers were arrested Friday during a noisy protest for better wages that jammed streets in the South Korean capital.
The cabdrivers drove in packs of up to 40 cars or parked with horns blaring after 1,000 police stopped them from joining union leaders staging a sit-in over pay.
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