WORLD IN BRIEF : SOUTH KOREA : Riot Police Storm Struck Shipyard
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Thousands of riot police firing tear gas stormed the world’s largest shipyard, clashing with striking workers barricaded inside and armed with homemade weapons. About 10,000 police poured through five gates leading into the huge seaside Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. shipyard in Ulsan, about 200 miles southeast of Seoul. About 20,000 of the shipyard’s 24,000 employees are unionized. Workers have been on strike for three days, demanding the release of four labor leaders arrested in earlier protests.
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