Unionists from the Ssangyong Motor branch of the Korean Metal Workers’ Union and the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions hold a protest and hunger strike calling for a parliamentary investigation into the dismissal of Ssangyong workers, in front of Deoksu Palace in central Seoul, Sept. 10. Last November, union leader Kim Jeong-woo was taken to hospital after a 41-day hunger strike. (by Shin So-young, staff photographer)