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The action team also occupied the campaign headquarters of six presidential candidates, including Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak of the conservative Grand National Party as well as Chun Jung-bae, who opposes the free trade, and Son Hak-kyu, whose headquarters the action team occupied for over 24 hours. Except for Chun Jung-bae, the action team was met with resistance, sometimes by the police, but the action team was clear in delivering its message that all presidential candidates must listen to the people and any suppression of democratic rights must end immediately. KoA aims to make the free trade issue an important campaign issue for presidential election, which comes up at the end of the year.  

The ten-day struggle was physically demanding at times, but the activists renewed their solidarity with each other and other organizations. The struggle against the Korea-U.S. FTA faces the difficult challenge of stopping its ratification. The suppression against KoA and the workers movement continues on. But from the look of their faces, the challenges of the struggle had already heightened their spirit and set their bodies in motion.