16 women were arrested after a recent police raid on Tandy’s TC Electronics Korea Corp research institute in Seoul, putting an end to an eight-day siege: the women had taken hostage Lee Joong Koo, the president of the company, who closed down the TC factory back in March, and disappeared, leaving workers without wages or severance pay; Mr Lee managed to escape three days before the raid, while the women, who were hoping to force Tandy officials in the US to discuss re-opening the plant, were asleep; the message from Tandy’s HQ in Fort Worth Texas, is that the decision to close the factory, which has been occupied by most of TC’s 1,400 workers since March, is final.
