SKorea activists to protest G20

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Source: AFP

South Korean labour and civic groups will join with international activists to stage a wave of protests against the November G20 summit in Seoul, a union group said on Monday.

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) said it would launch an umbrella protest organisation with about 50 other groups on Wednesday to oppose the meeting on November 11-12 of leaders from the Group of 20 leading world economies.

"The organisation will begin a campaign from October 1 to oppose the agenda of the G20 summit, which has taken measures forcing workers to sweat more than before," KCTU spokesman Lee Chang-Geun told AFP.

The KCTU, a militant union group that claims about 700,000 members, has led a series of anti-globalisation protests in the past.

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