But it also has become the center of growing opposition to the takeover of Daewoo by a foreign company. Take over this company. Kim bitterly claims the government and banks punished workers for crimes committed by Daewoo's former management. Indeed, Kim is a fugitive from federal corruption charges that allege much the same. Because the creditors' largest shareholder is the Korean government, he blames the government for promoting the sale of Daewoo.
Foreign countries are out to take control of our country's economy.
KIHO PARK Union leader Kim Il Sop took refuge in a church to avoid arrest. He vows to resist a GM takeover. Kim's militant union has long opposed the sale of Daewoo on the assumption that a buyer would close the aging Pupyong plant. In one way or another, that plant feeds one in every five of Inchon's 2.6 million residents. Because of that dependence, workers laid off in this working-class city have far fewer job options than those in more economically robust regions of Korea.