Happy Workers' Day! [https://ws.or.kr/article/11676](https://ws.or.kr/article/11676) On August 6, 1987, Hyundai Group chairman Chung Ju-yung appeared at Hyundai Heavy Industries. The “king chairman” personally stepped in to stop the workers’ struggles and the formation of democratic unions that had begun spreading through Hyundai Group factories in Ulsan in July. Workers stormed the company gymnasium, where Chung Ju-yung was lecturing managers, and demanded negotiations. Overwhelmed, he had no choice but to head to the field where around 20,000 workers had gathered. At that moment, a worker threw dirt at him. This was because Chung had often said, “I will not allow unions until dirt gets into my eyes.” That summer, when such anger and determination from workers erupted across the country, not only at Hyundai Group but nationwide, the military-style workplace control under the military dictatorship collapsed. In just those three months, over 1,000 democratic unions were newly formed.…