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4 February, 2001The Daewoo Motor trade union will visit France and Morocco to search for the former Daewoo Group chairman, who is in hiding.
KOREA, REP: While South Korea's Daewoo Motor Co. (Q.DMT) plans to seek help from police forces if employees continue their strikes, the Daewoo unionists say they will send a team to Europe and Africa in order to hunt for the "wanted" founder and former chairman of the Daewoo Group, Kim Woo-choong. (See January 12th news item on this website.)
"The 'arrest team' members will distribute leaflets containing Kim's picture and launch walking and bicycle campaigns in France's public spaces, starting February 12," said a union spokesman, according to the Korea Herald.
"The team will also visit Nice, where Kim is alleged to have stayed for a while," he continued, adding that an estimated 10 million won ($8,000) for expenses will be donated mostly by trade unions of other industry companies. Daewoo officials have said that Kim stayed briefly in Sudan late last year for unknown reasons.
Kim left for China in October 1999, after the Daewoo Group's key affiliates were declared bankrupt in late August of the same year. He then went into hiding abroad.
He has been seen in the United States, France, Vietnam, Sudan, Poland, Germany, and most recently Morocco.
"The 'arrest team' members will distribute leaflets containing Kim's picture and launch walking and bicycle campaigns in France's public spaces, starting February 12," said a union spokesman, according to the Korea Herald.
"The team will also visit Nice, where Kim is alleged to have stayed for a while," he continued, adding that an estimated 10 million won ($8,000) for expenses will be donated mostly by trade unions of other industry companies. Daewoo officials have said that Kim stayed briefly in Sudan late last year for unknown reasons.
Kim left for China in October 1999, after the Daewoo Group's key affiliates were declared bankrupt in late August of the same year. He then went into hiding abroad.
He has been seen in the United States, France, Vietnam, Sudan, Poland, Germany, and most recently Morocco.