SOUTH KOREA: Hyundai faces union threat after self-immolation protest

Author: Tony Lewis | 9 January 2012

A worker at Hyundai's Ulsan engine plant in the south-east of the country set himself on fire on Sunday in protest at the company's alleged suppression of union members.

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