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The Migrants' Trade Union (MTU) in Korea was established on May 3, 2005 by 91 workers in South Korea. [1] It was established to address poor working conditions and wage theft, widespread inequality and discrimination at the workplace. [2] [3] MTU has focused on achieving legal rights and recognition for undocumented migrants in South Korea. [4]
Like most countries, South Korea has legislation on foreign and migrant workers. As industrialization advanced in the 1980s and a shortage of low-skilled workers emerged, the question of foreign and emigrant workers increased.
About 10,000 Asian workers came to Korea under this program in 1992, and there were about 57,000 trainees in Korea in June 1996. However, the trainee program experienced problems: the trainees became undocumented workers due to a difference in wages and since they were not classified as laborers, they were not protected by the Labor Standard Law.
As South Korea struggles to get young people interested in marriage and kids, authorities are trying a new tack: importing foreign workers to carry some of the household burden. South Korea needs ...
On 29 January 2024, the South Korean newspaper The Korea Times published an article quoting Cho Han-bum, a senior analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification, who said that there had been a series of violent protests between 11 and 15 January conducted by North Korean migrant workers at more than ten textile factories in Helong, [2] a city in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea aims to issue a record number of visas for foreign skilled workers this year, as the justice minister announced on Wednesday a fifteen-fold increase in the annual ...
Korea was a sending country which sent farmers, miners, nurses and laborers to the United States, Germany and the Middle East.The Korean diaspora around the world consisted of 6.82 million people, as of 2009; there were 2.34 million Koreans in China and 2.1 million Korean Americans.
Indonesians in South Korea numbered 34,514 individuals as of August 2021, down from 41,599 in 2009 according to South Korean government statistics. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] More than 90% of those are estimated to be migrant workers employed on short-term contracts.