Company indebted, workers lost their jobs, but the owner's wealth growing. Miracle?
log date: 2026-5-29 The police forcibly dispersed employees who were staging a hunger strike in front of the Blue House, demanding a resolution to the Homeplus crisis.They have requested a meeting with the President. Reported by Service union (서비스연맹) on 2026-5-25. Employees of Homeplus Co., Ltd. (hereinafter Homeplus 홈플러스), demanding a meeting with the President Lee in front of the Blue House, South Korea. Homeplus employees ended up into a hunger strike in the front of the Blue House after being ignored while waiting for a response from the Lee administration following a press conference held on 2026-5-19. On January 14, 2026, all requests for arrest warrants against Homeplus executives including Michael Byoung-ju Kim (김병주) the owner of MBK Partners, who was the cause of the Homplus crisis, were dismissed. The predictions that the public had feared and criticized have become reality. In the substantive hearing following the requests for arrest warrants, the court released Byoung-ju Ki...