Yoon vows to protect 'value of labor' on Labor Day

<p><strong>LABOR DAY</strong>. President Yoon Suk Yeol enters the briefing room at the presidential office in Seoul on April 22, 2024. During the Labor Day commemoration on Wednesday (May 1, 2024), he vowed to protect the “value of labor’’ and thanked the 28.4 million workers for their “sweat and efforts” to help boost South Korea’s growth.<em>(Photo by Yonhap)</em></p>

LABOR DAY. President Yoon Suk Yeol enters the briefing room at the presidential office in Seoul on April 22, 2024. During the Labor Day commemoration on Wednesday (May 1, 2024), he vowed to protect the “value of labor’’ and thanked the 28.4 million workers for their “sweat and efforts” to help boost South Korea’s growth.(Photo by Yonhap)

SEOUL – President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed to protect the "value of labor" as he marked Labor Day on Wednesday.

In a Facebook post, he thanked the 28.4 million workers for their “sweat and efforts”, which he attributed for  the remarkable growth of South Korea.

"The government and I will protect the precious value of labor without fail," he wrote. "We will make your workplaces safer and fairer, and thoroughly see to it that you can find the meaning of life through labor." (Yonhap)

 

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