KCTU chief says he will stay at Jogye Temple
Press ask Monday a resident Buddhist monk at Jogye Temple about the future plans of Han Sang-kyun, chief of the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions, who remains hiding at the temple in the wake of a violent massive street rally late November. / Yonhap
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) Chairman Han Sang-kyun says he will stay in Jogye Temple as part of his battle for workers ‘rights.
Temple officials had given him a Dec. 6 deadline to leave.
“I cannot leave as of now,” he said in a statement released by KCTU members on Monday.
“I cannot forget the mission of 20 million laborers who have vowed to stop labor laws being reformed.”
Han took refuge in the temple in downtown Seoul after a violent rally in late November.