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[Anda]

Foreigners Tapped to Work on Farms
by Lim Do-hyuk ([email protected])

About 5,000 Ethnic Koreans from Central Asian countries will be invited to work here as foreign trainees in order to ease labor shortages at local farms.
The South Chungcheong province branch of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation said Wednesday that by July the first group of trainees, about 2,500 Korean-speaking foreigners from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyztan, Ukraine, and Mongolia, will be given work at local farms. An official at the federation said that trainees from China will also be invited once talks with Beijing pave the way.

Until the end of the month, the federation will be receiving applications from agricultural households or companies in need of manpower. The farms will need to pay W600,000 ($500) per trainee each month and provide benefits such as health care insurance. For more information contact (042) 229-6192.

[kricket]

What do you expect for unskilled labor? Also, I'm sure that the amount of money they're offering is alot more than what there making in their home countries. It's a fact of life that not everyone can make the huge amounts of money that Anda is making...

No one is holding a gun to these people's head forcing them to come. It's their choice.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I don't know, kricket. People use that same argument to defend the practice of buying organs from the poor. It's just slimy.

Korea claims to be a capitalist country. One basic law of capitalism is the law of supply and demand. Korea is short of farm laborers. It would make sense to raise the wages of farm workers (which would be reflected in prices at the grocery store) to attract workers. Importing cheap labor from China etc. while Koreans remain unemployed doesn't seem fair. The US does the same thing with imported migrant workers. It's a bad system all around.

[Captain Obvious 2.0]

[marsha marsha marsha]

Many workers would be delighted to get those wages, even in Korea. Koreans are so over educated, the jobs have to go to foreign workers. Its really sad. Koreans now feel they are too good to do some jobs but the gov't has refused work visas for those happy to do the DDDD work. The workers that do have those jobs manage to save more than half and send it home. Now that is amazing. They live cheap and don't spend their money the way the average Korean does and they don't have to live up to the standards that the average Korean does (paying for friends while drinking all night, wearing the right clothes etc...) so those workers will probably be better off in the end.
I personally think we should let them get visas, not just the ethnic Koreans, and work the factories and DDDD jobs. They are all doing it anyway, at least the gov't could legalize it and get some tax dollars off of it. I guess they make enough with bribes though...

[Tiger Beer]

I personally think this is a great opportunity.. $500/month isn't bad!! I don't know what the average monthly wage is in Central Asia.. but in other regions of Asia.. its alot less..

Heck, even if you were to teach English in China as a Westerner, you wouldn't make much more than that.. right around $500/month for college-educated foreigner teaching in China..

For unskilled labor.. in places like Indonesia.. they make around $2-3 a day doing hard labor tasks.. (moving rocks from one pile to another type of thing)..

Anyhow, I think its a great opportunity!! Plus there was a thread about how little Filipinas and Russians make in the bars in Itaewon.. I don't think they make much more than that either..

Also, I can't remember, but I think the average Korean makes around $1,000 a month.. something like that.. I can't remember.. someone better inform me on that one..

I remember myself.. when I was a college student back in the States.. I worked my summers in a factory at $3.35/hour.. (minimum wage at the time - in college from 1988-1992).. you can do the math yourself on that one..

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