Dispute settled before strike

From left, Seoul Metro CEO Kim Tae-ho, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and the subway operator's union leader Yun Byeong-beom show a written agreement over wage increase and other working conditions, at Seoul Metro headquarters, Wednesday. According to the agreement that came minutes before the union's planned strike, the company will raise workers' wages by 1.8 percent and hire 242 more recruits for safer operations. / Yonhap