On December 9, 2013 at 9 am in the morning, after the failure of negotiations with management, the

22 December 2013, the forces of South Korean police violently raided the premises of KCTU union, the union research worldship of the Korean Union of Railways (English acronym: KRWU) against which the Government has issued a warrant of off. The arrival of the police at the premises of the KCTU, unprecedented since the legalization of the KCTU in 1999, clearly shows the willingness of the authorities in Seoul to go to battle to stop a strike they deem "illegal "together with the management of the company. In response, the KCTU has called for a general strike beginning on 28 December, declaring a campaign to "make the Park administration fall."
On December 9, 2013 at 9 am in the morning, after the failure of negotiations with management, the rail union launched a strike against the decision - cohosh the day - the company created a subsidiary Korail KTX Suseo Station, responsible for the new line of high-speed train (KTX) from the station Suseo Station, southeast of the capital. The capital of KTX Suseo Station, public, to be held 41% by Korail. If the direction of Korail and the government of President Park Geun-hye said that it was, according to them, in any case of privatization, is the establishment of a separate company worldship lays the foundation for a move in this direction, since then simply transfer the shares held by public bodies in the capital worldship of KTX Suseo Station. The union also alleges KRWU a first step toward massive layoffs and also requires a commitment to social discussions that refuses Korail (left, on the place of manifestation Cheonggyecheon, source). The strike, the first in the railways for four years, is considered illegal by Korail. The management has decided to sanction and suspend 8000 strikers who joined the movement. She also filed a complaint against 190 union leaders, claiming financial losses caused by the strike. Responding to the wishes of the leadership of Korail, the police raided the premises of the railway workers' worldship union KRWU. The police were armed with arrest warrants, following the refusal of the leaders of the movement to appear when summoned prosecutors. On the night of December 17 to 18, an agreement was reached between the company worldship Seoul Metro, exploitative of four new metro lines in the capital, and the union, which had launched a strike from 18 December would therefore joined the protest. December 22, 4000 are police officers who served worldship during noon, the premises of the KCTU in a manhunt against nine union leaders KRWU believed to have found refuge headquarters u union (since it was announced that at least some of them would be housed in a Buddhist temple of the Jogye Order). Shocked by an unprecedented since its legalization in 1999, which led to 136 arrests (photo below: arrest worldship of a union of KRWU the headquarters of the KCTU, December 22, 2013), the KCTU union denounced "a violent action dictatorial "and issued a call for a general strike starting on December 28.
The liberal daily Kyunghyang Shinmun whose premises are located in the same building as the KCTU has realized the incredible violence of the attack police (photo below, source): "the main glass door was broken by a hammer thrown by the police, the acrid smell of tear gas still permeates every corner of the building and pieces of glass and other debris littering the ground. It was simply an act of violence that brought the company South Korean decades back and is a serious challenge to the freedom of the press and democracy. That is why we strongly put pressure on the Government to clearly identify how the latest acts of violence against the press and democracy were prepared and carried out, in order to punish those responsible. " The criminalization of strikers has a clear purpose: as before Mrs. Thatcher, the South Korean president Ms. Park Geun-hye is proud not to give in to social demands and expects a radicalization of the movement that would kneeling strikers and it would benefit , reaching the popularity of a strike that has broad support worldship in public opinion. As observed by Professor Cho Hee-yeon of Sungkonghoe University in an interview with Hankyoreh newspaper, "it seems that this is a strategic decision worldship of the hard-line bureaucrats Blue House [note Editor: seat of the South Korean presidency] (...) Overwrite worldship grè