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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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 Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: Living Like Ghosts: Stateless People in Korea |
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Living Like Ghosts: Stateless People in Korea
A Korean-Chinese masseuse at a public sauna in southern Seoul broke a rib while on duty in February. She went to an orthopedist for an X-ray and injection and bought the prescribed medicines, visiting the doctor twice more. The cost: W146,000 (US$1=W975) for hospital treatment, more than triple the price Koreans are charged.
Without either Korean or Chinese citizenship, she has no resident registration and health insurance. She cannot transact any official business in her own name in Korea. She has a deposit of W1 million in a bank account, but withdrawing the money is impossible without a residence certificate.
Stateless people are not legally allowed to stay in Korea like illegal immigrants; if caught, they are deported. But whereas illegal immigrants have a home country, stateless people have nowhere to return to because their original citizenship was canceled.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200804/200804080025.html |
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pugwall
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I think its sad that Korean Chinese who basically live completely Korean lives to the point of hamming it up and walking around in Hanboks at every opportunity cannot get resident visas. While 20 something Korean Americans from LA who couldnt tell kimchi from kimbap get a chance to milk the motherland for all its worth after bumming out of college. So much for Korean solidarity. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: Living Like Ghosts: Stateless People in Korea |
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| Harpeau wrote: |
Living Like Ghosts: Stateless People in Korea
A Korean-Chinese masseuse at a public sauna in southern Seoul broke a rib while on duty in February. She went to an orthopedist for an X-ray and injection and bought the prescribed medicines, visiting the doctor twice more. The cost: W146,000 (US$1=W975) for hospital treatment, more than triple the price Koreans are charged.
Without either Korean or Chinese citizenship, she has no resident registration and health insurance. She cannot transact any official business in her own name in Korea. She has a deposit of W1 million in a bank account, but withdrawing the money is impossible without a residence certificate.
Stateless people are not legally allowed to stay in Korea like illegal immigrants; if caught, they are deported. But whereas illegal immigrants have a home country, stateless people have nowhere to return to because their original citizenship was canceled.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200804/200804080025.html |
How was she able to deposit the money in the first place? And why wouldn't they give her a card and bankbook once she made this deposit? |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:01 am Post subject: |
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| pugwall wrote: |
| I think its sad that Korean Chinese who basically live completely Korean lives to the point of hamming it up and walking around in Hanboks at every opportunity cannot get resident visas. While 20 something Korean Americans from LA who couldnt tell kimchi from kimbap get a chance to milk the motherland for all its worth after bumming out of college. So much for Korean solidarity. |
But with the growing popularity of Chinese language study in Korea, perhaps more Chinese-Koreans will get better opportunities to work in the language education field in the future. |
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