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Real Reality
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 Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:01 am Post subject: Foreign Plaintiff Faces Deportation Before Ruling |
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Foreign Plaintiff Faces Deportation Before Ruling
By Park Si-soo, Korea Times (August 18, 2008)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/08/117_29556.html
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The Korea Immigration Service has rejected a visa extension request from a Bangladeshi worker whose petition is under review by the Constitutional Court.
In the petition, the worker questioned the constitutionality of the absence of a law covering injured foreign laborers with national insurance, saying this infringes on foreign laborer' rights to pursue happiness and equal treatment....
The worker was ordered to leave the country by Aug. 26....
The Bangladeshi national began working at a factory in Gyeonggi Province in 1998. After injuring his spine, he sought compensation from the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service in 2006. He sued the organization after his request was rejected. |
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GoldMember
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:42 am Post subject: |
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| Korean Government, legal system and employers collude to stiff a poor Bangladeshi worker. Thanks for the post RR, BUT how about posting something new for a change or something that is actually shocking. Yawn, so tell us something we don't know. |
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Unposter
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:31 am Post subject: |
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RR,
Thanks for the interesting article. It is good to see people are open minded enough to be concerned about the plight of industrial workers in Korea. These people need all the publicity and help they can get, in my opinion. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:35 am Post subject: |
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| They should let him stay until the case is finished. There are appeals and paperwork issues that require someone to be in Korea. |
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bassexpander
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Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:49 am Post subject: |
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Anyone think filipino teachers will get health care?
My guess will be "no". |
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Unposter
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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If they work for public schools, they should get their health care. If they end up working at hakwons, my guess is the same as yours, no.
If the Korean government opens English teaching positions for Philipeanos/as, it will most likely only be in the public schools. I highly doubt they will open up the hakwon market, but who knows?
As for industrial workers in Korea, the Korean government really needs to change the laws concerning them. The whole industrial worker visa is a sham and it creates more human rights violations than it helps.
While the money is good enough to entice many, once they get here, they are treated rottenly and many do die here. I once was shown an urn closet stocked floor to ceiling with the ashes of those who had died in Korea but did not have the money to get their bodies returned to their homeland. It was about the worst thing I have ever seen. These people need serious, serious help. |
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jdog2050
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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If they work for public schools, they should get their health care. If they end up working at hakwons, my guess is the same as yours, no.
If the Korean government opens English teaching positions for Philipeanos/as, it will most likely only be in the public schools. I highly doubt they will open up the hakwon market, but who knows?
As for industrial workers in Korea, the Korean government really needs to change the laws concerning them. The whole industrial worker visa is a sham and it creates more human rights violations than it helps.
While the money is good enough to entice many, once they get here, they are treated rottenly and many do die here. I once was shown an urn closet stocked floor to ceiling with the ashes of those who had died in Korea but did not have the money to get their bodies returned to their homeland. It was about the worst thing I have ever seen. These people need serious, serious help. |
It's funny; Koreans always use their past isolation as an excuse for a lot of their current actions (positive or negative). The problem is that they still behave like they're an isolated country that no one's heard of...but news gets out now, and it's stories in this same vein that are making news articles abroad, as well as word of mouth from the people that go through them. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| The Korea Immigration Service said, ``The foreigner in question has extended his visa several times to receive medical treatment and carry out litigation against discrimination. But he mainly used his extended stays for reasons different than in his initial report. That's why we rejected his request. But he will be allowed to return to Korea should the need for his presence arise.'' |
from the sounds of this paragraph it appears as if the litigation is only an excuse to stay in the country. If he has being doing physical work while receiving medical treatment for a "bad back" then immigration is just doing their job.
Unless you know the full story then you can't really jump in and say conspiracy or pull the race card. It sucks for the guy but if he has been abusing the system then he is simply paying the consequences.
I do think Korea needs to open up it's immigration system. The guy has been here since 1998 that's 10 years. In a lot of countries you would be a resident, if not a full citizen in that time. |
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