Workers strike amid ongoing political turmoil in South Korea.

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Stuart Clarkson in Fort Leanna Byrne.

Good morning.

Following the botched attempt to bring in martial law earlier this week,

the South Korean president, Jung Sung Yul, is facing impeachment.

A vote's expected tomorrow, but workers

have already been downing tools in protest. Korea's largest umbrella labor group, the Korean

Confederation of Trade Unions, KCTU, which represents more than a million people, says its members

will strike until the president steps down. Here's the KCTU international director, Mik Jong-Riyu.

First, yesterday, one of the largest union under the KCTU, the Korean Metalworkers

Union, called for a warning strike.

So workers in manufacture sectors, including auto, Hyundai Motor and Giyamotos and GM,

and shipbuilding workers stop working for two hours

for both day shift and the night shift. And they will continue the two hours strike until today.

And the Korean Railway Workers Union also launched a strike yesterday. Today, some more workers, for example, non-regular workers

in school will join and our government-in-fluous workers will take the collective annual leave

in the same day. And on the Saturday, KC2 members across the country will join the National

Candlelight March in various provinces

with other social movement and civil society organizations. So it will be the largest turnout.

And if the president doesn't resign by this weekend, we will expand the strike.

That's Mikhail Riyang Riy Ryu. Let's do the numbers now.

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