During a 1990 strike at the Hyundai Group, auto assembly-line workers described the following incidents:

"Only a small number of [Hyundai Motor] workers were blocking the road at first [in solidarity with striking Hyundai shipyard workers] ", said Roh Sang Soo, a young assembly line worker...."Then the police threw teargas into the compound while we were working. We could not work. ...I was on the Excel line at the time. I smelled the teargas. I came out of the plant and joined the demonstration" ....Those who came to work the next day again got teargassed. "We couldn't work because of the gas", said assembly line worker Lee Sang Hui. "If one person cannot work, the whole line stops. I just joined the demonstration and sang songs and clapped. "