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SEOUL (AFP) – Thousands of South Asiatic riot personnel backed up by liquid cannon and helicopters weekday ousted hundreds of strikers from an engine parts factory, after the work act effect creation by crowning automakers.

Some 2,700 personnel supported by fivesome liquid cannon and quaternary helicopters moved into Yoosung Enterprise's important being at Asan, 80 kilometres (48 miles) southward of Seoul, a personnel evidence said.

About 500 of the 540 strikers occupying the being were detained patch the others were dispersed, it said, adding most of the detained workers would be free later.

"Police hit marched into the plant... so farther without some ferocious clashes," a personnel spokeswoman in Asan told AFP.

The assail came six life after the being closed down. It was unclear when creation would resume.

Yoosung makes piston rings, cylinder liners and camshafts for the country's automakers, some of which hit had to revilement creation since many unionised workers went on accomplish over clear and employed conditions.

Management and personnel say the act is banned because strikers barred non-strikers from the being and filled the premises.

The act has seriously disrupted creation by South Korea's crowning automaker, the Hyundai Automotive Group.

The group, the world's fifth-largest maker by sales, sources piston rings for around 70 percent of its vehicles from Yoosung.

Hyundai said weekday it had obstructed creation at two diesel engine lines for Porter trucks, Starex SUVs, the Santa Fe and the Tucson ix SUVs at its being in the southeastern port of Ulsan.

Dow designer Newswires said the assemble was due to undergo a creation expiration of 50,000 vehicles, or most 14 percent of monthly sales, if the accomplish continuing until the modify of May.

The peninsula Automobile Manufacturers Association said automakers and suppliers could retrograde up to fivesome 1E+12 won ($4.57 billion) if the act went on until the modify of June.

"We propose the have union of Yoosung Enterprise to immediately modify its banned activity of plants, considering its negative effect on the machine business and the country's economy," it said in a evidence before the raid.

Because a container has more than 20,000 parts, disruption in cater of some single conception will inevitably lead to a halt in dealings of 5,000 another parts makers, KAMA said.

About 270,000 workers and their families in the machine business and 1.7 meg employees in attendant fields and their families could be affected, it said.

GM peninsula said its creation would be strained presently because it uses Yoosung piston rings in most half its models.

Renault Samsung, the topical unit of French maker Renault SA, said it expects no field disruptions modify though Yoosung supplies camshafts for its SM5 model.

Ssangyong Motor, dominated by India's Mahindra and Mahindra, uses Yoosung's rings for its large Chairman litter but said it has enough listing to ready creation going finished July.

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