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The Korea Communications Standards Commission said Tuesday that it will tighten its online surveillance on Internet posts that contain comments related to racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance. The move came amid a flood of angry posts aimed at migrant workers following the rape and murder case involving a Korean-Chinese man in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, early this month
More recently, there have also been a slew of racist comments targeted at Jasmine Lee, a naturalized woman from the Philippines who became a lawmaker of the ruling Saenuri Party in general elections last week. The commission said that it has decided to take preventive measures so that the ongoing attacks on people from overseas would not spread to migrant workers or foreign residents here in general.
Korean society ambivalent about foreign labor
In the early hours of a freezing day in January, hundreds of people, mostly middle-aged men, were lining up in front of a branch office of the Employment and Labor Ministry in Uijeongbu north of Seoul. The people, who run small manufacturing companies, were waiting to receive permits to employ a limited number of foreign workers in their factories, handed out on a first-come, first-served basis. Similar scenes were observed at most of the 51 employment centers operated by the ministry across the country.
Securing migrant laborers has become crucial for small manufacturers shunned by young native-born workers who prefer jobs in big companies with better prospects. Their sense of urgency has been amplified as a large number of foreign workers are leaving the country this year as their employment period expires. Small manufacturers have called for policymakers to increase the number of expatriate workers and extend their working period to ease the shortage of manpower. “Without the foreign workforce, many small businesses would have to move their production abroad or shut down,” said Ryu Jae-bum, head of the foreign workers services team at the federation. “We should now recognize them as an essential pillar of our industrial structure,” he said. Korea should be providing a variety of incentives to attract more foreign professionals with world-class expertise essential for further boosting its competitiveness in global markets.
According to OECD data, Korea filled only 2.3 percent of domestic jobs with foreign workers in 2009. The corresponding figures amounted to 21.9 percent in Switzerland, 11.2 percent in Australia, 9.7 percent in Norway, 7.3 percent in Britain and 5.4 percent in France. Japan, which has a more homogeneous society like Korea, was bottom with a meager 0.3 percent.
WORD
surveillance 감시하는
racist 인종 차별적인
xenophobia 외국인 혐오증
slew 많은
shun 피하다
amplify 증폭하다, 증대하다
manufacture 제조업
expatriate 국외거주자
pillar 기둥, 의지할 만 한 것.
QUESTION
1. what do you feel when you meet foreign worker?
2. Recently there are many crimes by foreign workers.
What do you think about it?
3. Do you think foreign labor in South Korea is necessary?
If so, how can we make harmony with them?
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Caesar님의 댓글
Caesar 작성일Certainly foreigners can come and live in Korea with their own reasons. BUT we have responsibility not to ignore the results. Thefts, murders, and other crimes caused by foreign workers or residents of Korea take up a high percentage, and there's even a good example of a country in Europe having trouble with unprepared immigration law. I believe both the government and individiual have to consider this first before we accept people from the abroad.
allen님의 댓글
allen 작성일First of all, I totally support the activity that the government tightens the surveillance of words that people on the Internet use, whatever it is unconscious or not. we don't deny the fact that foreign workers are a core of our small businesses community. So, the thought I have been thinking for a long time is the government should take owners of small businesses and people who have some phobia about foreign workers due to some terrible crimes that happened recently if the government should take an action responding to owners' side and citizens who are afraid of foreign workers. To protect citizens from foreign people who have a potential possibility of crimes, Tightening a process of identification for foreign people when they come into our country. And then, once the process of identification for the people is successfully finished, Extend the period the foreign people who are done with the identification process. I think it would be a good measure of the problem.