Members of the Central Association of Agricultural Managers of south Korea on October 16 ploughed rice fields in Thaean County, South Chungchong Province protesting against the 100 odd high-ranking public officials including the puppet vice-minister of Health, Welfare and Families who illegally took away the subsidy.

The organization also launched information service in demand of the punishment of public officials who have been engrossed in corruption and irregularities.

The Citizens' Solidarity for Democratic Society called a press conference in Seoul on the same day and urged the authorities to make public the full list of public officials who illegally took away the subsidy.

The "government" should probe the truth behind the case and severely punish those criminals of corruption and irregularities, the solidarity stressed.

At the end of the press conference, the solidarity thrust an open questionnaire to "Chongwadae" in demand of disclosing the truth about the embezzlement of the subsidy by public officials at minister or vice-minister level so far kept unknown.

The Government Employees' Union of south Korea also held a press conference in front of the administration building of the "government" and accused the public officials of getting the subsidy which should have been paid to farmers, branding it as the crime of exploiting the products of labor by the strength of power.

Civic and public organizations including the Citizens' Council for Right Society simultaneously released statements in which they strongly urged the puppet vice-minister of Health, Welfare and Families to step down and called for punishing those who illegally acquired the subsidy.