At the beginning of May this year when a trade union leader at the Han Chin conglomerate was killed by security guards, nearly a million students and workers took to the streets and went on strike. Many foreign businesses withdrew their investments and closed down; a number of export contracts were lost to Taiwan and mainland China.
今年五月初，韓國第七大財團韓進公司的工會領袖被警方拘留時死亡，又引發近百萬工人及學生的街頭示威及罷工，許多外資廠商撤資關門，還有不少外銷訂單轉落台灣及大陸手中。