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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.
The United Nations declared Korea an official receiving country in 2007, and the number of foreigners in Korea grew from 390,000 in 1997 to 1,000,000 in 2007. Among these, temporary laborers were 630,000 and foreigners who married Korean nationals were 100,000. The number of illegal immigrants were 230,000.
South Korea has low immigration due to restrictive immigration policies resulting from strong opposition to immigrants from the general Korean public. [1] However, in recent years with the loosening of the law, influx of immigrants into South Korea has been on the rise, with foreign residents accounting for 4.9% of the total population in 2019. [2]
SEOUL (Reuters) -Campaigning for South Korea's legislative election is in full swing ahead of an April 10 vote that will decide the make-up of its 300-strong National Assembly. The assembly will ...
The South Korean illegal surveillance incident (Korean: 민간인 불법사찰 사건, or illegal civilian surveillance incident) was alleged to have occurred in 2010 when the Civil Service Ethics Division (공직윤리지원관실) under the Prime Minister's Office of South Korea inspected a civilian, a political action that is illegal under ...
Migrant workers in South Korea do not receive any sort of payment if they have a deportation order. [7] Even if an employer owes them a certain amount of money, that employer is not forced under South Korean law to pay them. [7] Deportation from South Korea also runs the risk of a 10-year re-entry ban to those who receive the punishment.
A court in South Korea has convicted opposition leader Lee Jae-myung for violating election law, casting uncertainty over the prospects of him running for president in next year’s election.. The ...
The 2012 NIS public opinion manipulation scandal saw members of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) of South Korea accused of interfering in the South Korean presidential election, 2012. First, an agent of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) was alleged to have manipulated public opinion to help Park Geun-hye 's presidential election ...