WORLD IN BRIEF : SOUTH KOREA : Repression of Labor Unrest Stirs Protests
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Tens of thousands of students and workers took to the streets across South Korea to protest government repression of labor unrest. Protests turned violent in the port city of Ulsan, where police stormed a shipyard over the weekend to break up a strike. About 2,000 workers battled police guarding streets near the shipyard. In Chonju, radical students armed with steel pipes and firebombs attacked a building scheduled to be used for a meeting of the governing Democratic Liberal Party.
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