SOUTH KOREA
Hyundai Plans to Reopen: South Korea’s largest auto maker planned to resume operations today after a 12-day shutdown caused by a severe labor dispute, a company spokesman said. Despite Sunday’s announcement, news reports quoted union leaders as vowing to keep workers from entering the Hyundai Motor Co. plant. They planned street demonstrations against Hyundai management and the government, the reports said. Thousands of militant workers ended a seven-day occupation of the plant last Tuesday after police threatened to storm it.
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