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S. Korean bus drivers set to strike

Millions of South Koreans face commuter chaos Thursday with bus drivers set to launch a national strike to protest against a bill recognising taxis as public transport.

South Korean office workers crowd onto a bus after work in Seoul in 2011

Some 80,000 bus drivers across the country will launch the action from midnight Wednesday, a bus union spokesman told AFP.

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