Attending it were civic and public organizations including the Confederation of Trade Unions and the April 16 Solidarity and citizens and other people of all social standings, more than 30 000 in all.

At the rally speakers said that general strikes of workers against the introduction of the system of paying salaries according to piece rate are at full swing despite the repression by the regime, and citizens are proactively supporting them.

They demanded the authorities abolish the administrative guidelines related to labor, revise the special law on probing the truth about the ferry Sewol disaster and enforce a special investigation.

Prior to it, teachers under the Teachers Union held a large-scale rally in Seoul.

They demanded the authorities abolish the "system of estimating teachers" and revise the "law on teachers union".