I hope that we can use the existing capital that we still have to issue some bonds. In spite of the workers' sacrifices, the government has targeted us for insolvency. Mr. Lee summarized the plight of Korean students. One-third in rural areas have given up their schooling. The average cost for each student is about 1 million won per month, which means that they need to work to afford school.
Schools are unwilling to allow more time for students to pay their fees.
Students give private lessons and often are not paid because parents cannot afford them. Ms. Lee's organization collects information on the labor situation. We receive an average of 500 complaints a month citing non-payment of wages, unilateral reduction in wages, enforced signing of contracts that reduce salary, dismissing workers at will, thugs preventing workers to organize, union offices ransacked and workers beaten up. There are countless other cases not reported because they are not part of unions. Now that the crisis has worsened, women occupy fewer and fewer full-time positions.