No sooner had the president of the General Motors of the U.S. requested a solution to a wage issue under the pretext of investment in south Korea at a meeting sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Industry on May 8 than the chief executive of south Korea accepted it.

She promised to have the wage issue handled in favor of the U.S. business at a time when south Korean workers were staging an action after filing a suit over the wage issue. This behavior is touching off outcries among south Korean workers.

The Confederation of Trade Unions held a press conference in Seoul on May 14.

At the press conference the organization charged that the promise made by the chief executive to comply with the demand of a U.S. businessman, without hearing opinions of workers, was a silly and reckless behavior more serious than Yun Chang Jung's case.

The workers will never remain a passive bystander to such act favoring the interests of the U.S. plutocrat only, it warned.

Censuring her humiliating junket, the organization urged her to immediately rescind her promise and apologize to the people for it.

The opposition parties released statements and commentaries on May 13, stating that what she said is evidently something that deserves impeachment.

Media also deplored the humiliating diplomacy of the chief executive.