The editorial recalled that the present "government" hurled huge police forces into suppressing even old persons by use of water cannon, much upset by the first all-out people's action in which more than 150 000 people took part.

The "government" committed wholesale search and suppression of the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and even turned down the application for rallies, the editorial noted, adding this is reminiscent of the past period of dictatorship.

The all-out people's action means a grand chorus of the people protesting against the present "regime's" moves to retrogressively revise the labor law, introduce "state-compiled" history textbook and sidestep the probe into the truth behind the ferry Sewol disaster, it stressed.