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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 3:28 am Post subject: Workers Live in Fear |
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The 34-year-old woman was reportedly suffering from major stress after her employer continued to withhold her wages, taking advantage of the fact that she would face becoming an illegal alien if he refused to extend her contract.
"I want to go home, but my boss does not pay me money. The Labor Ministry was no help... I cannot go home because I have no money. There is no solution, so I choose death,���� read the suicide note she left behind.
On April 16, a female Mongolian worker also flung herself in front of a subway train in Ansan, Kyonggi Province. She was sent to a nearby hospital for treatment but died the following day, leaving behind a bill for 8 million won in medical and funeral fees which her family has no way of paying. Not only are the government policies ineffective, they are provoking various human rights infringements.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200405/kt2004050617533011990.htm |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| Uh huh. Who else has felt this way here? I agree with that suicide note. |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 3:38 am Post subject: |
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Hub of Asia yall! HUB OF ASIA!!
Move along now, this is merely a CULTURAL DIFFERENCE! |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 3:58 am Post subject: |
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| Send the bills to her former boss. Where does her family live that they would be legally responsible for any of these bills? In Mongolia? Forget about it. |
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