employment issue. With the cooperation of KWTU, KWWA has also directly engaged in a fight for non-regular women workers, producing exemplary cases and organizational accomplishments. Particularly since 2002, KWWA has successfully organized nutritionists, cafeteria cooks and librarians who are employed as irregular workers at schools, working with regional branches in conducting research and sponsoring discussion forums. Guaranteeing the Rights of Specially Employed Workers Specially employed workers—directly and indirectly supervised and paid by an employer yet classified as“self-employed”—remain in legal limbo. Women occupy the majority of these specially employed positions, facing further expansion due to the growth of the service sector. However, without being classified legally as “workers,” they could not receive any legal protection or remedy even in cases of occupational injury or unjust termination. With KWTU’s successful effort to organize 80 golf game assistants(“caddies”) working at the 88 Country Golf Club, KWWA prioritized the issue of extending labor legal protection to include specially employed workers, and organized petition drives and campaigns, and urged government action. The struggle for golf game assistants soon broadened to include all women workers excluded from legal protection and launched into the current efforts for legal reform. Campaign to Enact Specially Employed Workers Protection Law by golf caddies(Seoul Oct. 2000) Despite a 5 year effort led by the government to produce legal protection measures for specially employed workers, no solution has been reached and the issue remains unresolved. KWWA, KWTU, and Korean Women’s Association United have released two statements urging protection of basic labor rights for specially employed workers. 2) Actualize Minimum Wage and Protect Micro-business and House Managers In 2001 KWWA and KWTU conducted a research project on 528 women workers in 107 cleaning contracting companies in 9 regions. The research exposed the shocking condition/reality that 22.9% of all survey respondents were earning the legal minimum wage which was at the time 421,490 Won or less. KWWA launched the first National Campaign and Petition Drive(10488 signatures) to raise the official national minimum wage since the