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UNI contacts Manchester United to tell what has happened this morning downstairs at the Seoul World Cup Stadium
Korean riot police entered the Homever hypermarket at Seoul's World Cup Stadium this morning local time and carried out the protesting women workers, whose sit-in strike was going into its fourth week. The reason for using force was apparently tonight's football game at the stadium, where Manchester United meets FC Seoul.
UNI has contacted the British football club today, as well as the Trades Union Congress TUC and the UK professional football players' association, informing them about what has taken place downstairs in the stadium complex.
The game should go on, UNI said, but the visiting club and its football players should clearly disassociate themselves from this mornings heavy handed police action. It is clear that some government authorities used the game to clamp down at the workers while a negotiated solution to the conflict was still being sought.
If this was done in some kind of consideration for the visiting team and the football fans, it certainly has backfired. Instead, it can be considered as a real affront to both the Korean and the British clubs, and their world class players.