By Scott Scheffer
Yang Kyung-soo, the president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) — South Korea’s largest and most militant trade union confederation — has been jailed and is on a hunger strike.
A general strike had already been called for Oct. 20, and has now taken on demands to release Yang. Police had attempted the arrest in mid-August at the KCTU headquarters but were fought off by union members and forced to retreat.