Seoul subway strike begins Friday morning as talks collapse

Seoul subway strike begins Friday morning as talks collapse

Seoul Metro workers on subway lines 1 through 8 will launch a full strike starting with Friday’s first trains, a move that may disrupt morning commutes across the capital after overnight talks between the main union and management collapsed. The Seoul Transit Corporation Labor Union, the main union that takes up more than 57 percent of all employees, announced around 3:30 a.m. that final talks with management had broken down. Labor and managemen…