Korean Job Discussion Forums

[komtengi]

After watching this evenings news and looking at the exodus of 3d workers, I was suprised by another story of two workers that had commited suicide. The probelms that these workers go through to get here, then having to work here and now the government decides to send 120,000 of them back? I don't see this either remedying or improving the situation whatsoever.

[rapier]

Why the sudden govt. clampdown I wonder? Is it because the economy is that bad so koreans are reserving even the toughest jobs for themselves? i can't imagine such a mass deportation 2 years ago.

[ratslash]

don't understand this post. what are 3d workers?

[rapier]

They work at Ding Ding Dang hakwons and they wear special glasses to help them see all different dimensions.

[ratslash]

i trust, rapier, my good man, that you are being sarcastic, whereas the question was quite serious.

[schwa]

Dirty, difficult, & dangerous -- or something like that. Yah, the industrial jobs Koreans wont take. Rationale behind the mass expulsion is a bit hard to fathom. Most were here on a temporary 'trainee' basis & subject to a lot of abuse from employers (sound familiar?) & many were well beyond their visa dates. The small & medium-sized industries are gonna really suffer for the lack of personnel, & most of these people have nothing to return to in their home countries in terms of employment. There will presumably be some kind of accommodation for a new wave of needy & naive grunt-workers to be taken advantage of.

Some countries allow faithful imported workers to assimilate but there seems to be zero sympathy here for that line of thinking. Xenophobia at work, especially regarding those from developing countries it seems.

Heartbreaking scene one day this summer: a busload of Bangladeshi granted a day of r&r at the beach, lined up at the payphone & sobbing uncontrollably as they spoke I suppose with loved ones they hadnt seen in months or years.

[Arthur Fonzerelli]

ddd = dashing, debonair, delicate....

[Real Reality]

Facing Deportation, Foreign Worker Kills Self

A 32-year-old illegal worker from Sri Lanka who was facing deportation committed suicide Tuesday night by jumping in front of a subway train at Dandaeogeori Station in Seongnam, south of Seoul. According to witnesses, the man, identified only by his surname Tharaka, jumped down to the track, then lay down and let himself be run over. He had agonized over the forced deportation of illegal aliens promised by the South Korean government.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200311/200311120018.html

[Joe Thanks]

[helly]

The irony now is that businesses are complaining that there is a labor shortage and their labor cost will jump drastically if they are forced to hire Koreans. So the government is allowing 3,500 (I think) new industrial trainees in to alleviate the problem.

[Paji eh Wong]

[Gladiator]

These people are mere tools to their slave masters, living and working in conditions reminiscent of 18th century English factories. I suppose the bosses regard their deportation as similar to losing a lathe or a box of nails. It is a good question as to how Korea will fill those drudgery jobs though.

It puts our own predicaments here into perspective I guess. At least most English Teaching tools in Korea have access to a level of consular protection the Korean authorities sit up and take notice of. It's a sobering thought. Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia fare lttle better but I don't see the DDD workers situation in Korea improving anytime soon.

[helly]

Man, it looks like a witch hunt!

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200311/kt2003111717495610230.htm

[Dan]

before you guys start looking down your proverbial nose, remember that illegal foreign workers working in crappy jobs that no one else wants, exists in every developed country in the world.

At least the korean government is being proactive in trying to correct this behavior. In Cali Davis tried to push giving licenses to illegal immigrants so they could drive to their illegal jobs.

[maxxx_power]