Korea Headline- 09. Nov. 2009

1. Member of the Federation of Korea Unions rallied against the government's labor policy.

The government is seeking to put into practice new laborlaws next year to allow multiple unions to operate at a workplace and to prohibit wages for union representatives who only spend time to do union work.

2. Learning Korean at Yonsei University.
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3. Korean's deficit in the patent royalty payments widened to a record level in the third quarter of this year.
Korea posted a $1,326billion deficit in this period.

4. KOrea banned the slaughter of cattle "downer" for the meat supply for food supply.

5. Financial firms open more overseas units.
Companies have opened overseas operations mostly in China, India, Vietnam and other Asian countries.

6. Pohang steel Soccer team win AFN champion's title.