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...villages snowed in by a recent storm. Throughout the spreading strike, union workers at subways, phone companies and cargo docks have been directed to stay on the job for fear of raising the people's ire; hospital workers also have remained to staff emergency and operating rooms. Home Minister Kim Woo-suk warned that if the unions prolong the protests, the "government has no option but to take firm action." For now, though, the Seoul government will let public opinion determine the strikes' course. It is a war that unions seem to think they...
SEOUL, South Korea: Hardly dampened by a holiday break, strikes in South Korea continued Tuesday--and may even be broadening. Ignoring President Kim Young-sam's plea for labor peace, broadcasting employees at the giant state-run KBS and three other private TV and radio stations walked out Tuesday. They were joined by some 3,000 nurses and other unionized workers at 24 hospitals who rejoined the protests after ending their first round of walkouts a week ago. The outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions, which is organizing the protests, continues to disagree with the Labor Ministry on walkout totals...
...need to talk to you, just me and you,'" she says. "That's just something that can't be done, because someone has to bring them. And it's hard for them to express themselves over the phone." As for the other victims in this tragedy, Kay's friend Kim Martin says, "I don't think anyone should have to die, but if Jackie had been put in jail like he should have been, he'd be alive today...
...crying out, "She's gone too far this time! We've got to do something!" They all drop their tools and start yelling excitedly: "Call Human Rights Watch!" "What about Ghostbusters?" "Someone out there has to care!" Between painful hacks caused by a bad case of industrial emphysema, Tiny Kim sputters, "Let's go all the way to the top! I know Santa wouldn't put up with this...
...Wait a minute," Tiny Kim rasps, looking frantically around the room, "You mean there's no Santa at the top of the corporate hierarchy? No eternal spirit of altruism and self-sacrifice for the benefit of little children everywhere...