KTX crew members were reinstated to full-time Korean Railway Corporation (Korail) after 12 years of layoffs.

The National Railway Workers' Union and KORAIL announced today that they agreed on three labor-management agreements and seven subordinate agreements to solve the crew problem at 10 am.

First, the labor and management decided to hire a KTX crew member who was laid off in 2006 and filed a lawsuit to confirm the status of a worker.

However, if there is a reason for disqualification, or if you have a career in KORAIL's headquarters or subsidiary company, we will exclude you from this recruitment.

KORAIL plans to hire fired crews gradually from within this year to next year considering the human resource management situation.

The recruitment field is the 6th grade in the office business (service), and if KORAIL is to carry out the KTX commissioning work in the future, we will transfer them.

Labor and management began negotiations on the 9th of this month, met five times in total, and held negotiations on the 16th and 20th while staying overnight.

KORAIL also decided to cooperate with the crew to protect their rights when a court review process is filed.

I decided to try to restore the honor of the crew who had a reputation as a lay judge and judicial farmers.

The flight crews will hold a press conference at 2:00 pm at the tent site of the Tent Site and announce the progress of the struggle and the outcome of the negotiations.

Although KTX crews staged a strike on March 1, 2006, demanding the direct employment of KORAIL, KORAIL fired 280 crew members who refused to join the company on May 21 of that year.

Fired crews filed a civil lawsuit against KORAIL on October 1, 2008, and the trial court ruled in December that KORAIL was a real user of the crew.

The second decision also came to the same conclusion, but in 2015 the Supreme Court destroyed the ruling and dismissed the crew's claims.