(LEAD) Suicide Attempt by Fired GM Daewoo Employee Injures 24 Workers.

(From Yonhap)

JEONJU, South Korea, Feb. 25 (Yonhap) -- A former contract worker of GM Daewoo Auto and Technology Co. set himself on fire at the U.S.-owned automaker's maintenance shop here Friday, injuring himself and 24 workers, police said.

The 49-year-old former GM Daewoo worker, identified only by his family name Kang, doused himself with paint thinner at a union office of the company maintenance shop in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, about 245 kilometers south of Seoul, police said.

The thinner was spilled into a heater, engulfing the union office with fire and injuring people gathered there for a meeting. Kang himself was seriously burned and …