responded by forming the Committee on Women’s Unemployment in June 1998. This Committee uncovered and exposed actual case studies of unemployed women and proposed policy alternatives. Through telephone and in­person interviews and financial assistance, KWWA organized unemployed women and formed the Women’s Aid Society to Overcome Unemployment across the country. The Women’s Aid Society was open to any unemployed women who wanted to join, and it encouraged the participants to help each other and work to improve unemployment policies. The members actively participated in promoting social justice as well. They took part in petition drives and campaigns calling for increases in the national workfare budget to promote job assistance and public employment programs for the long-term unemployed, and the members also spoke out at various community forums related to women’s unemployment. Over time, these activities influenced the public opinion and media coverage began to change their narrow focus on male heads of household. Although the Women’s Aid Societies were loosely organized, they contributed to expanding the space of the women workers’ movement. Women who were unemployed or laid off from their jobs came together and voiced their concerns as urgent social issues, demanded appropriate policies and by organizing unemployed women, they advanced the effort to organize women workers. 4) Forming the Korean Women’s Trade Union to organize the unorganized and irregular workers Korean Women’s Trade Union. 1) Organizing women workers requires a trade union which is able to organize insecurely employed women workers, the majority of non­unionized(unorganized) women workers. Foundation of Women’s Trade Union(Seoul, Aug. 29, 1999) In response to the drastically worsening situation of“fire women first” policies following the IMF financial crisis, and the expansion of the irregular workforce, KWWA decided to establish the 2) Based on the experiences of existing regional unions, there is a clear need for full-time organizers as well as policy development capacity in order for such labor unions to succeed. 3) KWWA has thus far been both a membership­based mass organization and a policy organization. There was a need to transform the membership-