The World - News from Aug. 13, 1987

About 2,000 people took part in an anti-government demonstration in Seoul, and South Korea’s spreading labor turmoil left hundreds of factories idle. Protesters chanted anti-government slogans during a 3 1/2-hour rally at the Roman Catholic Myongdong Cathedral in downtown Seoul, and police hurled scores of tear-gas grenades when about 1,000 people, many throwing rocks, tried to march off the cathedral grounds after the rally. Meanwhile, strikes and sit-ins closed down the entire automotive industry, with two more plants halting production.