The secretary general of the Citizens Solidarity for Democratic Society said that the guarantee of basic labor right, increase of public pension, drastic increase of the minimum wage, probe into truth about the ferry Sewol disaster and abolition of the "regime's enforcement ordinance" demanded by the KCTU are all just calls.

The director of the Unification Study Center branded the Park Geun Hye regime as "the regime infected with diseases" making the society rotten, adding the KCTU's general strike is one to topple the rotten Park regime.

The permanent co-representative of the Strength of the People said that the regime defined the strike as "illegal one" and is planning wholesale suppression of it. Lurking behind this is an attempt to conceal the truth about the power-backed fraudulent election and the scandal disclosed by the Song Wan Jong case, he added.

The chairman of the Federation of Distribution Traders said that majority of self-supporting businessmen are those who suffered losses due to capital and the regime, positively supporting the strike of the KCTU.

The chairman of the Federation of Peasants Associations and the co-representative of the Solidarity for Liberation of the Poor accused the regime of regarding the workers as slaves, declaring peasants and the poor would join the KCTU in its general strike.

The chairman of the South Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification called upon the KCTU to take the lead in the strike and peasants, urban poor, common people and all other people to get united to drive the Park regime into a cesspool.

The chairman of the KCTU called for positive actions to save workers and other common people.