SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will ease regulations on visa screening procedures for young foreigners who get jobs at selected manufacturing businesses in a way to tackle the labor shortage, the government said Monday. Foreign students who are studying in South Korea and want to work in the country’s “root” industries such [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting next year, foreign laborers in Korea will no longer benefit from a policy that allowed them to receive medical treatment for free, and will instead have to pay 20 percent of the total expense. Laborers with foreign citizenship used to receive up to 10 million won ($8,500) for their [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A ruthless employer has chosen to pay his foreign workers their overdue wages with 22,000 coins. Foreign workers from Uzbekistan who worked at a construction site in South Gyeongsang Province’s Changnyeong County were given unpaid wages of 4.4 million won on June 9, all in coins. The builder gave them [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The employment rate for foreigners in South Korea edged up in 2015 from the previous year amid a steady influx of foreign nationals into the country, data showed Thursday. Of the more than 1.37 million foreign residents aged 15 or older, about 938,000 were working as of May this [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that Koreans show the highest level of dislike towards foreign workers and immigrants among other major countries. According to Choi Seung-moon, an assistant researcher at the Korea Institute of Public Finance, who analyzed the “World Values Survey,” Korean society clearly shows struggles related to economic [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – It is reported that female migrant workers are easily exposed to one of the worst human rights violations, sexual abuse, in South Korea. Of the migrant women working in South Korea, 10.7 percent went through sexual harassment or sexual assault, according to data conducted by a human rights advocacy [...]