Members of the Korean Government Employees Union (KGEU) and Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union (KTU, Jeon Gyo Jo), who issued emergency statements, stand ready but bewildered at the charging police officer and prosecutor, who says, “You better get ready for the fight ahead!”

The police officer goes on the attack as he targets the teachers with a Lee Myung-bak administration-led investigation.

A total of 69 members of both organizations were issued police summmons on Jan. 25 for allegedly joining and paying dues to the Democratic Labor Party (DLP).

Meanwhile, a sign taped to the prosecutor’s back reveals that they have actually been hired as thugs to investigate. Observers are saying that the leaders are being targeted by the Lee Myung-bak administration in an attempt to paint the recent not-guilty verdict over KTU’s emergency statements last year in political colors.

(Hankyoreh Geurimpan, Jan. 27, 2010)