SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday announced a decision to extend the period of stay for about 115,000 foreign migrant workers by one year in a bid to relieve labor shortages at small businesses and in farming and fishing communities. The labor and justice ministries said that the temporary extension of [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is pushing to revise local immigration laws to allow migrant workers from overseas to land parcel sorting jobs amid growing concerns over the industry’s manpower shortage and notoriously long work hours, officials said Tuesday. The Ministry of Justice recently preannounced a revision of an enforcement decree on [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea’s coronavirus vaccine drive kicks off, hopes are rising for a rapid return to normal life. However, migrant workers, often excluded from the government’s quarantine policies, are more concerned than they are excited for the vaccine. “We haven’t heard about any vaccination plans for migrant workers yet,” said Udaya [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Voices are growing calling for better living conditions for migrant workers after a recent tragedy in which a Cambodian woman who worked on a farm in Gyeonggi Province was found dead at her accommodations in a vinyl greenhouse. According to a migrant worker rights group, the Cambodian woman lived [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s human rights watchdog warned that in the midst of the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the human rights of migrant workers living in this country are being infringed. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea released a report on Sunday that was based on an analysis from the Joint [...]
ASAN, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The new coronavirus pandemic has severely disrupted arrivals of migrant manual workers with work visas in South Korea this year, according to a lawmaker Monday. The number of international workers with the E-9 non-professional employment visas who entered the country during the January-August period reached 5,590, according to Rep. [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans’ prejudice against sexual minorities is more serious and explicit than other minority groups such as migrant workers and North Korean defectors, a recent study showed. A survey of 1,000 adult men and women nationwide conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) from Oct. 21 [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has stepped up the quarantine process for migrant workers as imported cases of the new coronavirus remain a threat to the country’s containment efforts. Foreign workers with the E-9 visa, when returning from a short trip overseas, should arrange a self-quarantine place in advance and notify the [...]
ANDONG, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With a growing number of seasonal migrant workers wary of coming to South Korea due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection, securing workers in farming areas is becoming a serious challenge. North Gyeongsang Province was initially allocated 765 seasonal workers from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will extend the maximum period of stay for seasonal migrant workers on Tuesday from the current three months to five months to tackle chronic labor shortages in its agricultural and fisheries sectors, the Ministry of Justice said Wednesday. Under the current law, foreign seasonal workers invited by [...]