COSATU - Congress of South African Trade Unions. Main trade union federation in South Africa.

FKTU - Federation of Korean Trade Unions. Government (and US) sponsored federation of company unions. (1.2 million members at the beginning of 1997).

GDP - Gross Domestic Product. Total value of national production.

GNP - Gross National Product. Total value of production and trade.

ICFTU - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Body founded after Second World War as pro-imperialist trade union international.

ILO - International Labor Organization. Joint body of bosses, governments and unions now under auspices of United Nations.

KCIIF - Korea Congress of Independent Industrial Unions. Federation of white-collar independent union organizations before KCTU set up.

KCTU - Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. The semi-legal organization of independent democratic unions that led to the general strike. (500,000 members at the beginning of 1997).

KTUC - Korean Trade Union Congress. Blue-collar federation of independent unions before KCTU was established.

NCNP - National Congress for New Politics. Present party of opposition leader, Kim Dae-jung.

NCPD - National Committee for the Preservation of Democracy. Multi-organization "Task Force" set up to fight for total repeal of railroaded labor laws.

NL - National Liberation. One of the two major trends of opinion in the South Korean student and labor movement. Has put national struggle against imperialism above class struggle and internationalism.

NSPA - National Security Planning Agency. The hated Korean CIA.

OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Club of the 29 richest capitalist nations in the world.

PD - People's Democracy. One of the two major trends of opinion in the South Korean student and labor movement. Sees South Korean monopoly capitalism as main enemy and predominated in leadership of strike struggle.

TUAC - Trade Union Advisory Committee (of OECD). Body for trying to ensure member countries observe same rules of the exploitation game.

ULD - United Liberal Democrats. Opposition Party led by Kim Jong-pil.

Chun Doo-hwan - Army General and South Korean dictator-president who took power through a military coup in 1980 and ruled with an iron hand until swept aside by Great Democracy Struggle of 1987. Now in jail.

Chun Tae-il - Worker-hero who in 1970 leapt burning to his death in Seoul's notorious Peace Market demanding justice for garment-workers.

Hwang Jang-yop - Now defected ex-General Secretary of North Korea's 'Workers' Party'.

Kim Dae-jung - More radical of joint leaders of democratic opposition to military rule, the other being Kim Young-sam. Leader of main (capitalist) parliamentary opposition party, the NCNP.

Kim Il-sung - Head of North Korean state - the Democratic People's Republic - since its foundation in 1945 until his death in 1994.

Kim Jong-il - Son of Kim Il-sung, succeeding in a 3-year-long process to his father's position as head of state in North Korea.

Kim Jong-pil - One time functionary in regimes of military dictators in role as founder of Korean CIA. Leader of lesser parliamentary opposition party, the ULD.

Kim Young-sam - One-time joint leader with Kim Dae-jung of democratic opposition to military rule. Elected President of (Southern) Republic of Korea in 1992.

Kwon Yong-kil - President of the KCTU, the union federation that led the strike, and its main spokesperson.

Park Chung-hee - Army General and South Korean dictator-president from 1961, when introduced rapid industrialization program, through the 1970s Yushin Clampdown until shot in 1979 by Korean CIA head.

Roh Tae-woo - Succeeded Chun Doo-hwan as president of South Korea in 1987. 'Elected' amid allegations of vote-rigging, he lasted until 1992.

Syngman Rhee - Puppet head of South Korean state under post-World War US military administration and president until 1960 when forced into exile by "April (students') Revolution".