Around 5 p.m., Tuesday, when the waiting crowd was busy trying to squeeze into the subway train at Ewha Womans University Station on Seoul Metro Line 2, a 73-year-old senior citizen who asked to be identified only by her first name Hang-soon stood up from a bench and pushed her mini handcart onto the train.
Tensions between the government and unionized truckers of the Cargo Truckers Solidarity (CTS) are intensifying without any end in sight as the union declared a nationwide collective action in response to the government s hardline approach on the eighth day of the group s general strike, Thursday.